Liothrips brevifemur Girault, 1928

Mound, Laurence A., Dang, Lihong & Tree, Desley J., 2023, The genus Liothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) in Australia, Zootaxa 5306 (2), pp. 201-214 : 203

Liothrips brevifemur Girault nomen dubium

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Liothrips brevifemur Girault, 1928: 2

The single specimen on which this name is based was taken from the flowers of Phaseolus semierectus at Alderley, Brisbane, Queensland, 29.xii.1927 (in Queensland Museum, Brisbane). The specimen is crushed and largely destroyed under the edge of the coverslip of Girault’s type slide ( Fig. 37 ). The original description states “bristles pale, very short, funnel shaped”, and this character state does not occur in any species of Liothrips . The rest of the five-line description includes no details that can be satisfactorily matched to any genus of Phlaeothripid in the area. The remaining specimens on the slide are all Megalurothrips usitatus [ Thripidae ]. Thus the name brevifemur Girault cannot be associated with any known species.

Figures

FIGURES 26–40. Australian Liothrips. Prosternum 26–28: (26) burwelli; (27) pallipes; (28) timoni. (29) Pronotum of chionanthes. Pelta & tergite II 30–35: (30) burwelli; (31) chavicae; (32) takahashi; (33) timonii; (34) umbratus; (35) vaneeckei. Hind tibiae 36–40: (36) timoni; (37) vaneeckei; (38) chavicae; (39) urichi. (40) Holotype of L. brevifemur.