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Kevin R. Thiele is currently an adjunct associate professor at the University of Western Australia and the director of Taxonomy Australia. He was the curator of the Western Australian Herbarium from 2006 to 2015. His research interests include the systematics of the plant families Proteaceae, Rhamnaceae and Violaceae, and the conservation ecology of grassy woodland ecosystems. He also works in biodiversity informatics, developing and teaching the development of interactive multi-access keys, and has been involved in the design of software for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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- ↑ Richard S. Bagnall (April 1908). "LVIII.—On some new and curious Thysanoptera (Tubulifera) from Papua" (PDF). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 1, 8 (4, 1): 355–363. doi:10.1080/00222930808692417. ISSN 0374-5481. Wikidata Q111744187. [356].
- 1 2 "Lucid Key Factsheet - Mecynothrips". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
