Species Thaumatothrips froggatti Karny, 1922

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• Thaumatothrips froggatti Karny, H. 1922. A remarkable new gall-thrips from Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 266-274 [Date published 31/12/1922] [268].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (?lost, see Mound, L.A. & Crespi, B.J. 1992. The complex of phlaeothripine thrips (Insecta, Thysanoptera) in woody stem galls of Casuarina in Australia. Journal of Natural History 26: 395–406), Trangie, NSW.

Introduction

Brief note given by Mound et al. (2022), including information on distribution and host species: 'This thrips has been found in the galls induced by the two different species of Iotatubothrips from eastern and western Australia. In eastern Australia, large colonies have been
found in the woody galls of Iotatubothrips crozieri on Casuarina cristata at sites between Dalby and Goondiwindi in southern Queensland, also across inland New South Wales to Broken Hill. Specimens have also been seen labelled as collected by Froggatt in 1928 at Euston on the River Murray. In Western Australia, large colonies were found in the woody galls induced by Iotatubothrips kranzae on Casuarina obesa trees at the Murchison River crossing, 90km north of Geraldton.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

Gall-inducer (associated flora: Casuarina obesa [CASUARINACEAE]; Casuarina cristata [CASUARINACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

In woody galls on Casuarina [Casuarinaceae].

General References

Mound L.A., Tree, D.J. & Wells, A. 2022. Convoluted maxillary stylets among Australian Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae associated mainly with Casuarinaceae trees. Zootaxa 5190(3): 301-332 [Date published 29 Sept. 2022] [330]

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