Species Katothrips tityrus (Girault, 1928)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kladothrips tityrus Girault, A.A. 1928. Notice of a curious professor and of native wasps and wood lice. Brisbane : Published privately 4 pp. [1].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♀ (from Ac. melanoxylon), Box Hill, VIC.
• Kladothrips acallurus Bagnall, R.S. 1932. Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera. XVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 10: 505-520 [Date published 31/12/1932] [507].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, VIC, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mound, L.A. 1968. A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Supplement) 11: 1-181 [Date published 31/12/1968] [129].
• Kladothrips differens Bagnall, R.S. 1932. Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera. XVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 10: 505-520 [Date published 31/12/1932] [509].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, VIC, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mound, L.A. 1971. Gall-forming thrips and allied species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae) from Acacia trees in Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 25: 387-466 [Date published 31/12/1971] [410]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), 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
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore.

Extra Ecological Information

In gall and leaf mines, from Ac. melanoxylon, Ac. implexa, Ac. falciformis.

 

General References

Crespi, B.J., Morris, D.C. & Mound, L.A. 2004. Evolution of Ecological and Behavioural Diversity: Australian Acacia Thrips as Model Organisms. Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Entomology vi 321 pp. [224] (description, comments, images)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Feb-2020		17-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
05-Feb-2020		16-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)