Species Teuchothrips simplicipennis Hood, 1919

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• Teuchothrips simplicipennis Hood, J.D. 1919. Two new genera and thirteen new species of Australian Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 32: 75-92 [Date published 31/12/1919] [86].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Brooklyn, NSW.
• Mesothrips insolens Bagnall, R.S. 1924. Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera. XIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 14: 625-640 [Date published 31/12/1924] [638].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Healesville, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mound, L.A. 2008. Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre-1930. Zootaxa 1714: 41-60 [53]

Introduction

Notes and new records provided by Mound et al. (2023).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore (associated flora: Leptospermum myrsinoides Schltdl. [MYRTACEAE] Silky Tea-tree).

General References

Mound, L.A. 2008. Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre-1930. Zootaxa 1714: 41-60 [53] (discussion, host plant)

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] [471]

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