Species Leeuwenia diospyri Mound, 2004

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leeuwenia diospyri Mound, L.A. 2004. Australian long-tailed gall thrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae, Leeuweniini), with comments on related Old World taxa. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 28-37 [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, Lorien, 3 km N of Lansdowne near Taree.
  Paratype(s) 7♀ 6♂, in colony with holotype.

  Type host:

   Diospyros pentamera (F.Muell.) F.Muell. [EBENACEAE] (from curled leaf gall)

Introduction

Mound & Tree (2021) note the host plant species and comment on unusually short tube.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore (associated flora: Diospyros pentamera (Woolls & F.Muell. ex F.Muell.) F.Muell. [EBENACEAE] Black Myrtle), gall-inducer.

General References

Mound, L.A. & Tree, D.J. 2021. Structural variation among species of Leeuwenia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with three new species from Australia. Zootaxa 4903(3): 439–447 [Date published 8 Jan. 2021] [442]

History of changes