Uzelothrips

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

Mound LA, Heming BS & Palmer JM (1980) Phylogenetic relationships between the families of recent Thysanoptera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 69: 111-141.

Species

Uzelothrips scabrosus Hood, 1952