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Presumably feeding on fungal hyphae,
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The only known extant species in this genus lives on dead twigs, where it presumably feeds on fungal hyphae. Specimens have been taken widely around the tropics.
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== References ==
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Revision as of 21:53, 25 July 2012


Genus information

Uzelothrips Hood, 1952: 143. Type species Uzelothrips scabrosus Hood, by monotypy.


Biology and distribution

The only known extant species in this genus lives on dead twigs, where it presumably feeds on fungal hyphae. Specimens have been taken widely around the tropics.


References

Uzelothrips scabrosus Hood, 1952