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Issue: Vol. 2620 No. 1: 22 Sep. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-09-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2620.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 12

A new species of predatory Scolothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) feeding on Raoiella mites (Tenuipalpidae) in Australia

CSIRO Entomology, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
Queensland Primary Industries Insect Collection (QDPC), Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068
Neiker-Tecnalia, Basque Institute of Agricultural Research and Development, Department of Plant Production and Protection, Granja Modelo Arkaute, Antigua Carretera Nacional 1 km 255 E-01080 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Thysanoptera Scolothrips ochoa Raoiella Tenuipalpidae predatory thrips

Abstract

Scolothrips ochoa sp. n. is described from Australia feeding on mites of the genus Raoiella (Tenuipalpidae). Apparently host-specific, this thrips is unusual within the Thripinae in lacking ocellar setae pairs I and II. Moreover, it differs from other Scolothrips species in lacking elongate pronotal midlateral setae, and by having antennal segments III–IV and V– VI broadly joined.

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