Senithrips

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Senithrips
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Senithrips

Mound & Minaei, 2006

Senithrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, [1] [2] found in Western Australia, and first described by Laurence Mound and Kambiz Minaei in 2006. [1] [3] The genus contains just one species, Senithrips psomus. [4]

Senithrips psomus is a fungus feeding thrips, whose holotype was collected on Barrow Island, Western Australia in Triodia angusta grassland. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Australian Faunal Directory: Senithrips". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  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. LAURENCE A. MOUND; KAMB MINAEI (14 March 2006). "New fungus-feeding thrips (Thysanoptera–Phlaeothripinae) from tropical Australia". Zootaxa . 1150 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.1150.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334. Wikidata   Q97462870.
  4. 1 2 "Senithrips Mound & Minaei, 2006". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-06-21.