Klambothrips Mound & Morris

Mound, Laurence A., 2008, Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre- 1930, Zootaxa 1714, pp. 41-60 : 56-57

Klambothrips Mound & Morris

Klambothrips Mound & Morris, 2007: 39 . Type species K. myopori Mound & Morris , by original designation from four species.

The type species of this genus was described from Californian specimens, in which State the thrips is a pest on a decorative shrub. However, both the thrips and the shrub are presumed to be introduced from New Zealand. The other three species in the genus are from Australia; K. annulosus (Priesner) , K. walsinghami (Girault) , and K. oleariae Mound & Morris , the first two having previously been placed in Teuchothrips . Two of these species induce leaf deformation on species of Asteraceae , but the identity of K. walsinghami has remained in doubt. Mound & Morris (2007) used the name for a thrips that is common on Myoporum insulare around the South East of Australia, whilst pointing out that the type specimen came from Queensland. More recently, walsinghami has been found inducing leaf deformation on Eremophila deserti at Taroom in southern Queensland, and this fresh material has enabled this thrips to be distinguished from the southern species that thus remains without a name. Although both annulosus and walsinghami were listed in Teuchothrips by Mound & Houston (1987), they both differ from members of that genus in having a pair of setae laterally on the head.