Leeuwenia tetrastigmae Mound, 2004

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2021, Structural variation among species of Leeuwenia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with three new species from Australia, Zootaxa 4903 (3), pp. 439-447 : 445

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.3.9
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1EE00DAC-2DBE-4C2F-8BFA-035726212B5F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4432314
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scientific name	Leeuwenia tetrastigmae Mound, 2004
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The host plant of this thrips, Tetrastigma nitens [ Vitaceae ], is widespread in rainforest areas of the Australian East coast from Sydney northwards. However, populations of the thrips and the distorted leaf-galls it induces have a patchy distribution. Adults are smaller than those of convergens , with the head and the tube shorter, and the legs uniformly yellow.