Franklinothrips vespiformis

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antennal segments I-V

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antennal segment 6

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Franklinothrips vespiformis meso- and metanotum

Nomenclatural details

Aeolothrips vespiformis Crawford DL, 1909: 109.

Biology and Distribution

Presumably originally from the Neotropics, but now widespread around the world.

References

Crawford DL (1909) On some Thysanoptera from Mexico and the south. Pomona College Journal of Entomology 1: 109–119.

Mound LA & Reynaud P (2005) Franklinothrips; a pantropical Thysanoptera genus of ant-mimicking obligate predators (Aeolothripidae). Zootaxa 864: 1-16.

Mound LA, Tree DC & Paris D. (2012) Ozthrips – Thysanoptera in Australia. [1]

Type information

Depositary not known.