Callococcithrips Mound & Wells

Mound, Laurence A., 2008, Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre- 1930, Zootaxa 1714, pp. 41-60 : 54

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.180986
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3513030
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scientific name	Callococcithrips Mound & Wells
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Callococcithrips Mound & Wells, 2007: 58 View Cited Treatment . Type species Rhynchothrips fuscipennis Moulton, 1968: 97 , by original designation

This genus was erected for two species, one from eastern Australia and one from Western Australia. In these species, the maxillary stylets are unusually long and overlap medially in the head. Referred to the genus Teuchothrips by Mound & Houston (1987: 18), the type species lives within the waxy covering of an eriococcid, on which it is presumed to be predatory ( Mound & Wells, 2007). The second species, Liothrips atratus Moulton , is known only from a single female that was collected near Perth in 1931.

References

Moulton, D. (1968) [published posthumously]. New Thysanoptera from Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 th series, 36, 93 - 124.

Mound, L. A. & Houston, K. (1987) An annotated check-list of Thysanoptera from Australia. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology, 4, 1 - 28.

Mound, L. A. & Wells, A. (2007) A new genus for an Australian thrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) presumed predatory on a waxy eriococcid (Hemiptera, Coccoidea). Zootaxa, 1645, 57 - 61.