Teuchothrips badiipennis Hood

Mound, Laurence A., 2008, Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre- 1930, Zootaxa 1714, pp. 41-60 : 49

Teuchothrips badiipennis Hood

Teuchothrips badiipennis Hood, 1919: 87

Described on three females from Brooklyn, NSW with no host data, this species is now recognised as one of two species associated with small galls on the buds of the common shrub, Bursaria spinosa . This conclusion is based on a comparison of the holotype with a long series of specimens ( Figs 13–14 ) from Black Mountain in Canberra, ACT. Both sexes can be long or short-winged, and major males have a small tubercle at the apex of the fore tibia and a large glandular area occupying the anterior half of the eighth sternite.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 16. Teuchothrips species. T. acripilus holotype 10 – 12: (10) Head; (11) Pronotum; (12) Metanotum & pelta. T. badiipennis 13 – 14: (13) Antenna; (14) Female head & thorax. (15) T. ater forewing sub-basal setae. (16) T. burroughsi head & pronotum.