Neocecidothrips curviseta (Girault) Girault, 2008

Mound, Laurence A., 2008, Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre- 1930, Zootaxa 1714, pp. 41-60 : 59

Neocecidothrips curviseta (Girault) comb.n.

Horistothrips curviseta Girault, 1926: 2

Teuchothrips curviseta (Girault) ; Mound & Houston, 1987: 18

Described from an unspecified number of “Females from galls, Brisbane”, there are 15 damaged individuals of both sexes, apparently all macropterae, under two cover slips on the type slide ( Fig. 1 ). These were the only known specimens until October 2007, when Desley Tree found the species inducing soft, thick-walled galls on the margins of leaves of Auranticarpa rhombifolia (Pittosporaceae) at The Gap, Brisbane. Each of the galls found at this site was very young, containing a single macropterous female. Eggs were present in only one gall, and the only male found was walking on the outside of a gall. Several of these galls also bore substantial numbers of eggs, larvae and adults of Teuchothrips ater , but these colonies were on the outer surface of the galls, particularly in the angle between a gall and the leaf lamina.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Type slides of three species described by Karny, and three species described by Girault.