Tarassothrips, Mound & Palmer, 1983

Eow, L. X., Mound, L. A. & Ng, Y. F., 2011, Genera of Spore-Feeding Thysanoptera from Southeast Asia (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), with a species checklist from Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 2928 (1), pp. 1-19 : 15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2928.1.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/50183200-FFBE-FFD9-E2A5-F98A8E11F93D

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Tarassothrips
status

 

Tarassothrips View in CoL

Only two species are recognised in this genus, T. akritus Palmer & Mound from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, and T. grandis Okajima from Philippines. These have the maxillary stylets elongate, retracted to the level of the compound eyes and close together medially, and there is a pair of ommatidium-like structures ventro-laterally on the anterior third of the cheeks.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Phlaeothripidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Phlaeothripidae

Genus

Tarassothrips

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF