Thrips imaginis

Thrips imaginis Female, mesonotum and metanotum [L A Mound]

Thrips imaginis Female, pleurotergites [L A Mound]

Thrips imaginis Female, sternites V-VII [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Thrips fortis Bagnall, 1926: 109. Synonymised by Mound, 1968: 65.

Thrips imaginis Bagnall, 1926: 111.

Thrips imaginis var. apicalis Bagnall, 1926: 111.

Thrips shakespearei Girault, 1927: 1. Synonymised by Mound & Masumoto, 2005: 29.

Neophysopus io Girault, 1927: 1. Synonymised by Pitkin, 1978: 369.

Neophysopus aureolus Girault, 1928: 3. Synonymised by Pitkin, 1978: 369.

Aptinothrips apertus Kelly & Mayne, 1934: Synonymised by Palmer, 1975: 185.

Described from Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Australia.

Bagnall RS (1926) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera XV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)18: 98–114.

Girault AA (1927) Some new wild animals from Queensland. Published privately Brisbane pp. 1–3.

Girault AA (1928) Some Insecta and a New All Highness. (Notes compiled in fear and sorrow). Published privately, Brisbane. pp. 1–4.

Kelly & Mayne (1934) The Australian Thrips. Australian Medical Publishing Company Limited, Sydney, NSW. 81 pp.

Palmer JM (1975) The grass-living genus Aptinothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of Entomology (B) 44(2): 175-188.

Pitking BR (1978) A revision of the Australian species of Anaphothrips Uzel (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 26: 349-371.

Mound LA & Masumoto M (2005) The genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Zootaxa 1020: 1–64.

Holotype female (T. fortis), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype (T. shakespearei), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Syntype (N. aureolus), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Syntype (N. io), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.