Species Heligmothrips brevidens (Hood, 1918)

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Species Heligmothrips brevidens (Hood, 1918)

Liothrips brevidens Hood, J.D. 1918. New genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 121-150 [Date published 31/12/1918] [137].
Type data:
Holotype USNM ♀, Pentland, QLD.
Teuchothrips spinosus Moulton, D. 1968. New Thysanoptera from Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 36: 93-124 [Date published 31/12/1968] [102].
Type data:
Holotype CAS ♀, Upper Williams River, NSW.
Cryptothrips reticulaticeps Girault, A.A. 1927. Thysanoptera nova australiensis, II. Brisbane : Published privately 2 pp. [1].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♀, Banyo, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Mound, L.A. 1970. Convoluted maxillary stylets and the systematics of some Phlaeothripine Thysanoptera from Casuarina trees in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 18: 439-463 [Date published 31/12/1970] [459]
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] [318]

Introduction

Mound et al. (2022) synonymised the Girault name with H. brevidens, following examination of widespread specimens and a discussion of the variability within the species.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also taken in Timor Leste

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore (associated flora: Casuarina cunninghamiana [CASUARINACEAE]; Allocasuarina palludosa [CASUARINACEAE]; Allocasuarina muelleriana [CASUARINACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

On Casuarina [Casuarinaceae].

General References

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] [318]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	THYSANOPTERA	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells (ABRS)
15-Sep-2023	THYSANOPTERA	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells (ABRS)
17-Nov-2022	PHLAEOTHRIPIDAE	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells (ABRS)
21-Feb-2022	THYSANOPTERA	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells
04-Aug-2021	THYSANOPTERA	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells
05-Aug-2020	THYSANOPTERA	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells (ABRS)
05-Feb-2020	THYSANOPTERA	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	Phlaeothripinae	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
20-Dec-2018	Phlaeothripinae	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
31-Jul-2018	PHLAEOTHRIPIDAE	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
31-Jul-2018	Phlaeothripinae	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
31-Jul-2018	Phlaeothripinae	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
08-Jul-2015	PHLAEOTHRIPIDAE	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
08-Jul-2015	Phlaeothripinae	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Desley Tree
08-Jul-2015	Phlaeothripinae	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
05-Feb-2020	TUBULIFERA	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Feb-2020	Phlaeothripinae	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Feb-2020	PHLAEOTHRIPIDAE	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
05-Feb-2020	Phlaeothripinae	20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
05-Feb-2020		20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
05-Feb-2020		20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
		20-Mar-2024	MODIFIED

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