Teuchothrips clavipilus (Karny)

Mound, Laurence A., Dang, Lihong & Tree, Desley J., 2023, Structural diversity among the leaf-feeding thrips of Australia in the genus Teuchothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with 20 new species, Zootaxa 5383 (4), pp. 441-475 : 452

Teuchothrips clavipilus (Karny)

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Horistothrips clavipilus Karny, 1920: 39 .

Described only in a key to species and based on a single male said to have been collected in northern Queensland at “Cedar Creek”, this specimen was discussed by Mound (2008). The identity of this named species remains in doubt. Specimens from Geijera at Dalby that were considered in 2008 to possibly represent clavipilus are here identified as garrunggam sp.n. The holotype has not been re-examined during the current studies, but the following are the only available specimens that will run to clavipilus in the key provided here based on Mound (2008): New South Wales, Graman, 2 female hemimacropterae from Boobialla [ Myoporum insulare ], 28.iv.1959, in ANIC.

Figures

FIGURES 27–36. Teuchothrips of Australia. (27) T. clavipilus head. T. connatus 28–30: (28) head & pronotum anterior margin; (29) antenna; (30) metanotum & pelta. T. disjunctus (31) head. T. dodonaea 32–34: (32) head & pronotum; (33) antenna; (34) metanotum & pelta. T. froggatti 35–36: (35) head & pronotum; (36) metanotum & pelta.