Genus Koptothrips Bagnall, 1929

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• Koptothrips Bagnall, R.S. 1929. On some new genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera (Tubulifera) with special reference to gall-species. Marcellia (Rivista Internazionale di Cecidologia) 25(1928): 184-204 [Date published 31/12/1929] [197].

  Type species:

   Koptothrips flavicornis Bagnall, 1929 by monotypy.
• Sphaericothrips Moulton, D. 1968. New Thysanoptera from Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 36: 93-124 [Date published 31/12/1968] [115] [junior subjective synonym of Koptothrips Bagnall, 1929].

  Type species:

   Sphaericothrips clarapennis Moulton, 1968 by monotypy (as Sphaerothrips clarapennis).

 

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] [427]

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• 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] [427]

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia

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. [255] (generic relationships, diagnosis, key to species)

Crespi, B.J. & Mound, L.A. 1996. Ecology and evolution of social behaviour among Australian gall-forming thrips and their allies. In, Choe, J. & Crespi, B.J. (eds). Social and Sexual Competition in Insects and Arachnids. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

 

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)