Akthethrips

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Akthethrips
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Thysanoptera
Family: Phlaeothripidae
Genus: Akthethrips
Mound, 1970
Type species
Akthethrips strobus
Mound, 1970

Akthethrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, [1] [2] first described by Laurence Mound in 1970. [1] [3] There is just one species in this genus, Akthethrips strobus, which is found in New South Wales and South Australia, living on the foliage of Casuarina glauca , and Casuarina pauper . [4]

It is suggested that the elongate stylets of this species (and genus) "are adapted to feeding on the chlorophyllous tissue of Casuarina(s)" [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Genus Akthethrips Mound, 1970". Australian Faunal Directory.
  2. ↑ Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2019). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
  3. 1 2 LA Mound (1970). "Convoluted maxillary stylets and the systematics of some Phlaeothripine thysanoptera from casuarina trees in Australia". Australian Journal of Zoology . 18 (4): 439-463 [452]. doi:10.1071/ZO9700439. ISSN   0004-959X. Wikidata   Q99639750.
  4. ↑ "Factsheet - Akthethrips". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 2022-04-19.


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