Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
text
Zootaxa
2011
3064
1
40
journal article
46148
10.5281/zenodo.200567
dbb812a3-60dd-4f6f-bb48-9e2ce120221a
1175-5326
200567
Arorathrips
Bhatti
(
Figs 23–24
)
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
). 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.