Species Leeuwenia polyosmae Mound, 2004

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leeuwenia polyosmae Mound, L.A. 2004. Australian long-tailed gall thrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae, Leeuweniini), with comments on related Old World taxa. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 28-37.

  Type data:

   Holotype LAM LAM 4173 ♀, Mt Glorious near Brisbane.
  Paratype(s) ♀, collected with holotype.

  Type host:

   Polyosma cunninghamii Benn. [GROSSULARIACEAE] (from leaf gall)

Introduction

Mound and Tree (2021) give notes on the species.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore (associated flora: Polyosma cunninghamii Benn. [ESCALLONIACEAE]), gall-inducer.

General References

Mound, L.A. & Tree, D.J. 2021. Structural variation among species of Leeuwenia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with three new species from Australia. Zootaxa 4903(3): 439–447 [Date published 8 Jan. 2021] [445]

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