Fungus-feeding Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae of the Idiothrips genus-group in Australia, with nine new species
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Tree, Desley J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4034
2
325
341
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.5
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1175-5326
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Azaleothrips
Ananthakrishnan
Azaleothrips
Ananthakrishnan, 1964
: 220
.
Type
species:
A. amabilis
Ananthakrishnan
, by monotypy.
This genus comprises 35 species, all from the tropical areas of eastern Asia, and a detailed and fully illustrated account of the genus has been made available by
Okajima and Masumoto (2014)
. To this total of 35 should be added one new species from
Australia
described below, also a second species from
Australia
that was recently transferred to
Azaleothrips
(
Mound & Tree 2014
)
. In addition to the species considered below, a single female macroptera of an undescribed species has been studied from near Cairns with two sense cones on antennal segment III and three on IV, and with the third segment clear yellow. This species is similar in structure to
simulans
Okajima from Bali and
Flores, Indonesia
, but more specimens will be required before it can be considered further.