Mirothrips

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Genus information

Mirothrips Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013: 333. Type species Mirothrips bicolor Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013, by designation.

Biology and Distribution

Three species, from South America and all presumably predatory on small arthropods.

References

Cavalleri A, Souza AR, Prezotto F & Mound LA (2013) Egg predation within the nests of social wasps: a new genus and species of Phlaeothripidae, with consideration of the evolutionary consequences of Thysanoptera invasive behaviour. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109: 332-341.

Species

Mirothrips analis (De Santis, 1959)

Mirothrips arbiter Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013

Mirothrips bicolor Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013