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Issue: Vol. 4291 No. 2: 12 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.2.10
Page range: 384–390
Abstract views: 89
PDF downloaded: 72

Relationships among Caliothrips species (Thysanoptera: Panchaetothripinae) with one new species from Mexico

Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.
Thysanoptera tergite sculpture fore wing colour pattern host relationships

Abstract

Caliothrips chiapas sp.n. is described from Mexico, breeding on the leaves but not in the flowers of Tithonia tubiformis [Asteraceae]. Patterns of tergal sculpture and wing colour exhibited by the 23 species now recognised in this genus are discussed and illustrated.

 

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