Species Eilapinothrips additamentus (Karny, 1924)

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• Cryptothrips additamentus Karny, H. 1924. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 38. Thysanoptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(2): 1-56 [Date published 31/12/1924] [31].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM ♀, Mt Tamborine, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mound, L.A. 2008b. Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre-1930. Zootaxa 1714: 41-60 [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01714p060.pdf].

Generic Combinations

• Teuchothrips additamentus (Karny, 1924).
• Gynaikothrips additamentus (Karny, 1924). —
  Mound, L.A. 2008. Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre-1930. Zootaxa 1714: 41-60 [56]
• Eilapinothrips additamentus (Karny, 1924). —
  Mound, L.A. & Tree, D.J. 2021. Taxonomic problems with Gynaikothrips and related genera (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae): the ficorum/uzeli complex and taxa endemic to Australia. Zootaxa 5023(4): 537–554 [551]

Introduction

"This thrips lives as a kleptoparasite within the leaf roll galls induced by Gynaikothrips australis on the tree known as Moreton Bay Fig, Ficus macrophylla, as well as together with Gynaikothrips platypodae within galls on Ficus platypoda". (Mound & Tree 2021: 551)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Daly Basin (DAB), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore, kleptoparasite.

General References

Mound, L.A. & Tree, D.J. 2021. Taxonomic problems with Gynaikothrips and related genera (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae): the ficorum/uzeli complex and taxa endemic to Australia. Zootaxa 5023(4): 537–554

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