Franklinothrips basseti

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Franklinothrips bassetti meso- and metanotum

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Franklinothrips bassetti female sternites VI-VII

Nomenclatural details

Franklinothrips basseti Mound & Marullo, 1998: 944.

Biology and Distribution

Described 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 (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

Holotype female, Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra.