Franklinothrips basseti

Nomenclatural details

Franklinothrips basseti Mound & Marullo, 1998: 944.

Biology and Distribution

From southeastern Queensland, Australia, from tree canopy.

References

Mound LA & Marullo R (1998) Biology and identification of Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera) in Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 929–950.

Mound LA & Reynaud P (2009) Franklinothrips; a pantropical Thysanoptera genus of ant-mimicking obligate predators (Aeolothripidae). Zootaxa 864: 1-16.

Mound LA, Tree DJ & Paris D (2012) Ozthrips [1]

Type information

Holotype female, in Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra.