Mirothrips analis
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Nomenclatural details
Adraneothrips analis De Santis, 1959: 254.
Biology and Distribution
Described from Argentina living inside the silk bags of Oiketikus moths. It is also reported from Brazil, usually associated with dead twigs and leaves of unrelated plant species. It is possibly 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.
De Santis L (1959) Adiciones a la fauna Argentina de Tisanópteros II. Acta Zoológica Lilloana 17: 87-93.
Type information
Holotype female, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
