Species Desmothrips crespii Marullo, 1995

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• Desmothrips crespii Marullo, R. 1995. Two new species of Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera) from northern Australia. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 78(1): 163-171 [165].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (from Acacia flowers), 70 km N of Boulia, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Florivore, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

In flowers of Acacia [Mimosaceae] and Calytrix [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

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 [316]

 

History of changes

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		02-Sep-2010	MODIFIED