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Issue: Vol. 5489 No. 1: 31 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5489.1.13
Page range: 184-191
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 2

The Neotropical genus Lenkothrips (Thysanoptera: Heterothripidae): additions to the faunas of Argentina and Brazil with an updated key to species

Universidade Federal do Piauí; Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral; Coleção de História Natural da UFPI. BR 343; Km 3;5. Floriano; PI; Brazil. 64808-065
Instituto de Biología de la Altura; Universidad Nacional de Jujuy; Avenida Bolivia 1661; San Salvador de Jujuy; República Argentina
Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Boulevard 120 s/n entre Av. 60 y Calle 64; 1900; La Plata; Buenos Aires; Argentina
Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Boulevard 120 s/n entre Av. 60 y Calle 64; 1900; La Plata; Buenos Aires; Argentina
Thysanoptera Biodiversity Solanum Chaco La Plata Mato Grosso do Sul thrips

Abstract

Lenkothrips is a Heterothripidae genus with five species known only from South America. These species breed exclusively on flowers and exhibit some degree of host specificity. In the present paper, we describe three further species from Argentina (L. moundi sp. n.) and Brazil (L. canastra sp. n. and L. pantanal sp. n.) and provide an updated key to the now eight species of Lenkothrips.

 

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