Leeuwenia polyosmae Mound, 2004

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2021, Structural variation among species of Leeuwenia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with three new species from Australia, Zootaxa 4903 (3), pp. 439-447 : 445

Leeuwenia polyosmae Mound, 2004

Described originally from two females taken in a leaf gall on Polyosma cunninghamii [ Grossulariaceae ] near Brisbane, Queensland, this thrips was found subsequently on the same plant species in rainforests at Lamington near the border with New South Wales. Some of the galls were a remarkable blue colour ( Fig. 6 ), and the species is unusual within the genus in having a fore tarsal tooth, in both sexes.

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FIGURES 1–6. Leeuwenia species. Females 1–3: (1) aliceae sp.n.; (2) cameroni sp.n.; (3) irukandji sp.n. Leaf galls 4–6: (4) colony of scolopiae; (5) colony of tetrastigmae with Teuchothrips sp. inquiline; (6) polyosmae gall.