Species Heligmothrips gracilior (Hood, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Liothrips gracilior Hood, J.D. 1918. New genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 121-150 [Date published 31/12/1918] [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Pentland, QLD.
• Teuchothrips albipennis Moulton, D. 1968. New Thysanoptera from Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 36: 93-124 [Date published 31/12/1968] [99].

  Type data:

   Holotype CAS ♀, Ivanhoe, NSW.

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] [456]

Introduction

Notes given by Mound et al. (2022), and new records.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore (associated flora: Casuarina cristata [CASUARINACEAE]; Casuarina pauper [CASUARINACEAE]; Casuarina obesa [CASUARINACEAE]; Allocasuarina luehmanni [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] [323]

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