[A] species of tubuliferan thrips has recently become a serious pest on a common urban ornamental shrub, Myoporum, inducing considerable leaf deformation through its feeding activities
”- Laurence A. Mound & David C. Morris: (2007) A new thrips pest of Myoporum cultivars in California, in a new genus of leaf-galling Australian Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera)©