Yarnkothrips kolourus

Yarnkothrips kolourus_Female head and pronotum [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Yarnkothrips kolourus Mound & Walker, 1986: 83.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Whatipu, North Island, New Zealand on yellow lichen; widespread in eastern Australia, also Norfolk Island and New Caledonia (Mound & Dang, 2013).

References

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

Mound LA & Dang L-H (2013) New Australian records of Asian or New Zealand Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera). Australian Entomologist 40(3): 113-117.

Type information

Holotype female, New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Auckland.