Species Adrothrips vernoni Mound, Tree & Wells, 2022

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• Adrothrips vernoni Mound, L.A., Tree, D.J. & Wells, A. 2022. Convoluted maxillary stylets among Australian Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae associated mainly with Casuarinaceae trees. Zootaxa 5190(3): 301-332 [Date published 29 Sept. 2022] [313].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC female de-alate macroptera (on Allocasuarina verticillata), South Australia, Kangaroo Island, American River.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 4 micropterae, same site and host as holotype; ANIC 2 micropterae, Kangaroo Island, Stokes Bay; ANIC 1 female (on Allocasuarina muelleriana), Kangaroo Island, Destrey’s Bay Road; ANIC 1 female (from dead bark), New South Wales, Bermagui; ANIC 4 micropterae (1.i.2022), 1 male 1 female macroptera (4.ii.2022) (Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, on A. verticillata), ACT, Mt Stromlo; ANIC 8 females, 2 males, ACT, Oakey Hill; ANIC 1 female macroptera, 4 females, 2 males with larvae (from woody gall), ACT, Mt Ainslie.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, SA: Kanmantoo (KAN), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Allocasuarina verticillata [CASUARINACEAE]; Allocasuarina muelleriana [CASUARINACEAE]).

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