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Issue: Vol. 3814 No. 4: 11 Jun. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.9
Page range: 581–590
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 14

The neotropical flower-living genus Lenkothrips (Thysanoptera, Heterothripidae): three new species and an identification key

Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Brazil Malpighiaceae Monimiaceae Mollinedia Neotropics new species

Abstract

Three new species are described in the South American genus of flower-feeding thrips, Lenkothrips De Santis & Sureda: L. mollinediae sp. n. from four species of Mollinedia (Monimiaceae) in Brazil and Ecuador; L. guaraniticus sp. n. and L. kaminskii sp. n. from Malpighiaceae in Brazil. An illustrated key to the five Lenkothrips species now recognized is provided.