Genus Scirtothrips Shull, 1909

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• Scirtothrips Shull, A.F. 1909. Some apparently new Thysanoptera from Michigan. Entomological News 20: 220-228 [Date published 31/12/1909] [222].

  Type species:

   Scirtothrips ruthveni Shull, 1909 by monotypy.
• Labiothrips Bhatti, J.S. & Mound, L.A. 1994. A new genus of Terebrantian Thysanoptera from New Guinea, related to a Foliothrips and Cestrothrips (Thripidae). Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology 4: 161-176 [Date published 31/12/1994] [162].

  Type species:

   Labiothrips tenor Bhatti & Mound, 1994 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hoddle, M. & Mound, L.A. 2003. The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 268: 1-40

Introduction

Two new species added from Lord Howe Island, and information added on biology (Mound & Wells 2023).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

History of changes