Lunacy originally denoted intermittent insanity, supposed to be dependent on the changes of the moon (Latin luna): the term is now applied in general and legal use to any form of mental unsoundness except idiocy. Craziness is a vague popular term for any sort of disordered mental action, or for conduct suggesting it. (Ed.Of these terms insanity is the most exact and comprehensive, including in its widest sense all morbid conditions of mind due to diseased action of the brain or nervous system, but in its more frequent restricted use applied to those forms in which the mental disorder is persistent, as distinguished from those in which it is temporary or transient. Sub-family relationships of Bradinothrips Hood and Parascolothrips Mound (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), The genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand, The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae),Ĭonspectus of the Phlaeothripinae genera from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), The insect Order Thysanoptera: Classification versus Systematics*, Journal of the Australian entomological Society, 7, 59–62.Īn annotated check list of the world’s whiteflies (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), A preliminary review of the genus Homochaetothrips gen.nov., with brief description of a new species. (2012) World Thysanoptera: an information resource. (1981) Phylogenetic relationships between some genera of Thripidae (Thysanoptera). (2011) Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia. , Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 26, 1–414. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 28, 1–400. (1979) The privately published papers of A.A.Girault. (1929b) Description of a case of lunacy in Homo and of new six-legged articulates. (1929a) North American Hymenoptera Mymaridae. (1928) Some Insecta and a New All Highness. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8)17, 213–223. (1916) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera VII.
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The purpose of this note is to establish the nomenclatural validity of these synonyms, according to the Code of Zoological Nomenclature, so that they can be included in an expanded web-based account of Australian Terebrantia (Mound et al. As a result of extensive studies on the Australian thrips fauna over the past 50 years, 77 of the 139 Girault Thysanoptera names are now placed into synonymy, including two new synonyms discussed below. The original slide preparations are available in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, but these are remarkably poor, with cover glasses broken, labels inadequate and scarcely legible, and many bearing multiple species. Most species were described in three or four lines from single, often damaged specimens, and distinguished from each other on colour rather than structure. The publications include no biological information.
Unfortunately, the identity of these species has been a continuing problem. In these papers Girault made available over 900 new species-group names, mostly Hymenoptera but with 139 that applied to Australian Thysanoptera.
(1979), in reproducing facsimile editions of each of these papers, provided an extensive overview of Girault’s life and opinions, many of which were expressed outrageously on a wide range of topics.
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He published extensively on the taxonomy of Australian parasitic Hymenoptera, but achieved particular notoriety through issuing a series of 63 privately published papers before his death in 1941. Girault, arrived in Australia in late 1911 at the age of 28, to take up an appointment as economic entomologist to the Queensland Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations near Cairns. CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
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