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Issue: Vol. 4273 No. 3: 6 Jun. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-06-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.3.10
Page range: 443–446
Abstract views: 75
PDF downloaded: 55

Two new Australian fungus-feeding thrips in two new Plectrothripini genera (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) 

Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601.
Queensland Primary Industries Insect Collection (QDPC), Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland, Ecosciences Precinct, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Qld, 4001.
Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae

Abstract

Two new genera are erected of plectrothripine Phlaeothripidae from northern Australia, each based on a single species. One has a long stout projection ventrally on the second antennal segment, the other has a unique arrangement of the dorsal facets of the compound eyes. In both of them the thoracic ventral sclerites are extensively eroded.

 

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