Arorathrips Bhatti

Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, Zootaxa 3064, pp. 1-40 : 13

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.200567

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6190153

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scientific name

Arorathrips Bhatti
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Arorathrips Bhatti View in CoL

( Figs 23–24 View FIGURES 23 – 30 )

This New World genus currently includes eight species, but several other species described in Chirothrips should be transferred here ( Mound & Marullo, 1996). These species are distinguished by the reduction of the metasternal furca, such that the furcal pits are widely separated not close together medially ( Fig. 24 View FIGURES 23 – 30 ). One of these species, A. mexicanus , is now widespread on grasses throughout the tropics and subtropics, and Mound & Palmer (1972) provided an illustrated account, under the generic name Chirothrips , of the two Arorathrips species known from Australia ( A. mexicanus and A. spiniceps ). Larvae of species in these genera apparently always develop each within a single grass floret, and the few larvae that have been examined have such small legs that they seem to be effectively immobile.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Thripidae

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