Sophiothrips aleurodisci Mound & Walker, 1982

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2014, The minute, fungus-feeding species of Sophiothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) from Australia and New Zealand, Zootaxa 3860 (2), pp. 184-194 : 185

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.2.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:692BD0FD-958D-40E9-84D3-6EA2722C6361
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5248429
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4D65878F-9C78-575F-FF66-F871FDB6FF07
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Sophiothrips aleurodisci Mound & Walker, 1982
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Sophiothrips aleurodisci Mound & Walker, 1982 View in CoL

This uniformly brown species is known only from New Zealand, where it is widespread in native forest in both North and South Islands. Large males have a tubercle ventrally on the head, and often have a small tubercle dorsally on tergite IX. This thrips has been taken from dead branches in association with a small pink coral-spot fungus of the genus Aleurodiscus .