Species of Lissothrips and Williamsiella from mosses and lichens in Australia and New Zealand (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae)
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Tree, Desley J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3946
3
361
373
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3946.3.4
08f618a6-0089-4d90-a01b-18f23ac8b54a
1175-5326
240234
E701C847-5C86-47F1-8653-BA4C3E24A590
Lissothrips dugdalei
Mound & Walker, 1986
: 67
This species remains known only from the
type
series of
16 females
and two males, taken from moss and litter at two sites on the west coast of South Island,
New Zealand
. It is distinguished by the reduction of the pelta to a small sub-circular sclerite, and the male lacks a sternal pore plate.