extant species
Heligmothrips gracilior
Nomenclatural details
Liothrips gracilior Hood, 1918: 136.
Teuchothrips gracilior Hood, 1919: 86.
Teuchothrips albipennis Moulton, 1968: 99. Synonym in Mound 1970.
Biology and distribution
Described from Pentland [= Gordonvale], Queensland, Australia (L. gracilior) and Ivanhoe New South Wales, Australia (H. albipennis) from Casuarina.
Distribution: Known only from Australia; widespread across the continent. All species of Heligmothrips feed and breed on the foliage of Casuarina– and Allocasuarina trees.
References
Hood JD (1928) New genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 121–150.
Moulton D (1968) New Thysanoptera from Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 36: 93–124.
Mound LA (1970) Convoluted maxillary stylets and the systematics of some phlaeothripine Thysanoptera from Casuarina trees in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 18: 439–463.
Type information
Holotype ♀ (L. gracilior): United States National Museum, Washington.
Holotype ♀ and allotype ♂ (H. albipennis): California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.