Species Desmothrips aliceae Pereyra & Mound, 2010

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• Desmothrips aliceae Pereyra, V. & Mound, L.A. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Desmothrips (Thysanoptera, Aeolothripidae), an Australian genus of facultative flower-living predators. Systematic Entomology 35: 306–317 [311].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Wee Jasper.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 11♀ 3♂, collected with holotype; ANIC 1♀, same host and locality, different date.

  Type host:

   Brachychiton populneus [Sterculiaceae] (in flowers)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, WA: Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

In flowers, sap-feeder (associated flora: Brachychiton populneus (Schott & Endl.) R.Br. [MALVACEAE] Kurrajong).

History of changes