Aeolothripidae

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Aeolothripidae
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Thysanoptera
Suborder: Terebrantia
Family: Aeolothripidae
Uzel, 1895
Genera

Aeolothrips

Franklinothrips
others, see text

Diversity
24 recent genera (5 fossil), ca. 200 species

The Aeolothripidae are a family of thrips. They are particularly common in the holarctic region, although several occur in the drier parts of the subtropics, including dozens in Australia. Adults and larvae are usually found in flowers, but they pupate on the ground. While they normally prey on other arthropods, many feed also on flowers.[1]

Genus Aeolothrips, which contains about half of all species in this family, mostly live on flowers, although a few species live at ground level as obligate predators of mites. Those that live on flowers are normally facultative predators. requires floral proteins in its diet in addition to its regular prey of thrips larvae to breed successfully.

Franklinothrips is a pantropical genus of ant-mimicking predators.

Genera[]

  • Ananthakrishnan, 1963 (one species, A. asiaticus)
  • Aeolothrips Haliday, 1836 (95 species, holarctic)
  • Bagnall, 1932 (seven species)
  • Mound, 1967 (one species, A. kellyana)
  • Moulton, 1930 (two species)
  • Bagnall, 1926 (1 species, C. marginipennis)
  • † Grimaldi, 2004 (one fossil species, C. antiquus)
  • Mound, 1991 (three species)
  • Moulton, 1931 (six species)
  • Mound, 1977 (two species)
  • Hood, 1915 (14 species, Australia)
  • Mound & Marullo, 1993 (one species, E. cubilis)
  • Erythrothrips Moulton, 1911 (12 species, western North and South America)
  • Hood, 1936 (one species, E. marginipennis)
  • Franklinothrips Back, 1912 (14 species, pantropical)
  • Bhatti, 1967 (three species)
  • Bhatti, 1967 (one species, I. bhushani)
  • Moulton, 1935 (one species, L. miltoni)
  • † Priesner, 1949 (one fossil species, L. crassipes)
  • † Scudder, 1875 (one fossil species, L. vetustus)
  • Bagnall, 1928 (three species)
  • Moulton, 1907 (three species)
  • † Scudder, 1875 (one fossil species, P. fossilis)
  • †Permothrips Martynov, 1935 (one fossil species, P. longipennis)
  • Bagnall, 1932 (one species, R. turneri)
  • Bagnall, 1923 (two species)
  • Uzel, 1895 (six species)
  • Hood, 1912 (eight species)
  • Bhatti, 1971 (two species)

References[]

  1. ^ Mound, L.A. (1977). A new genus of Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 4:149-152. PDF[permanent dead link] (Desmidothrips)
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