Structural diversity among the leaf-feeding thrips of Australia in the genus Teuchothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with 20 new species
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
Author
Dang, Lihong
School of Bioscience and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, 723000, China
Author
Tree, Desley J.
0000-0002-7704-7750
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-12-13
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https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5383.4.2/52464
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5383.4.2
1175-5326
10369631
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Teuchothrips minor
Bagnall
(
Figs 84–87
)
Teuchothrips minor
Bagnall, 1929: 193
.
The original description was based on both sexes taken in
New South Wales
“in spirally curled leaf galls on
Melaleuca
sp.
”. However,
Mound (2008)
pointed out that this plant was probably misidentified, as
minor
has been found widespread between Canberra and Brisbane inducing rolled leaves on
Callistemon saligna
. This is one of the species with only two sense cones on antennal segment IV. It has the setae on tergite IX unusually small, and has the postocular setae variable and sometimes scarcely larger than the minor setae on the head (
Fig. 84
). Antennal segments III–VI are largely yellow (
Fig. 86
), and larger individuals of both sexes have a small tubercle at the inner apex of the fore tibia.
Specimens studied in
ANIC
:
Syntypes
female and male,
New South Wales
, Port Macquarie,
3.ii.1900
.
Australian Capital Territory
, Black Mt., both sexes macropterae and micropterae from
Callistemon saligna
rolled leaves,
12.x.2004
; O’Connor, both sexes macropterae and micropterae in curled leaves of
Myoporum
,
8.xii.1989
.
New South Wales
, Sydney, Boxhill,
1 female
from
C. saligna
, 1997; Lismore,
20km
north, both sexes macropterae and micropterae from
C. saligna
,
18.vii.1997
.
Queensland
, Brisbane, both sexes macropterae and micropterae from
C. saligna
galls at Mt Nebo,
11.vii.2002
, and at Mt Glorious,
9.vii.2002
.
Specimens studied in
QDPC
:
Queensland
,
Dalveen
,
one female
from green wattle,
11.xi.2009
;
Australian Capital Territory
,
Canberra
, from
Melaleuca
? in a garden,
20.ii.2012
;