Species Teuchothrips leptospermum Mound, Dang & Tree, 2023

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• Teuchothrips leptospermum Mound, L.A., Dang, L.-H. & Tree, D.J. 2023. Structural diversity among the leaf-feeding thrips of Australia in the genus Teuchothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with 20 new species. Zootaxa 5383(4): 441–475 [Date published 13 Dec. 2023] [462].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (from Leptospermum scoparium), Australia, Tasmania, Mt Anne, Condominium Creek.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1 ♀, 2 ♂, taken with holotype; ANIC 2 ♀ with larvae (from Eremococcus galls on Leptospermum lanigerum), Tasmania, Meander Forest Reserve; ANIC 2 ♀hemimacropterae, 3 ♀micropterae (beating), Tasmania, Little Fisher River; ANIC 1 ♀ macroptera (from Leptospermum), South Australia, Wottons Scrub [10km southeast of Adelaide]; ANIC 2 ♀, 1 ♂ micropterae (from Leptospermum fruits), New South Wales, Fitzroy Falls; ANIC 3 ♀ micropterae, 3 ♂ micropterae, 1 ♀macroptera (on Leptospermum sp.), Australian Capital Territory, Brindabella, Piccadilly Circus.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore (host(s): Eremococcus pirogarus [ERIOCOCCIDAE] (associated with galls)) (associated flora: Leptospermum scoparium [MYRTACEAE]; Leptospermum lanigerum [MYRTACEAE]).

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