Teuchothrips disjunctus

Nomenclatural details

Liothrips disjunctus Hood, 1918: 134.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. Recorded from New Zealand (Mound & Walker 1986); induces leaf-roll galls on Callistemon citrinum (Mound, 2008: 51).

References

Hood JD (1918) New genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 121–150.

Mound & Walker (1986) Tubulifera (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 10: 1-140.

Mound LA (2008) Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre-1930. Zootaxa 1714: 41–60.

Type information

Holotype female, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.