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Brakothrips

Brakothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, first described by Crespi, Morris and Mound in 2004. The type species is Brakothrips gillesi. Insects in this genus are found only in Australia, living under the splitting bark of young branches of Acacias.

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Brakothrips
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Thysanoptera
Family: Phlaeothripidae
Genus: Brakothrips
Crespi, Morris & Mound, 2004
Type species
Brakothrips gillesi
Crespi, Morris & Mound, 2004

Brakothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae,1 first described by Crespi, Morris and Mound in 2004.23 The type species is Brakothrips gillesi.2 Insects in this genus are found only in Australia, living under the splitting bark of young branches of Acacias (but one species utilises a similar habitat in Eucalyptus cinerea).45

Species

  • Brakothrips bullus
  • Brakothrips gillesi
  • Brakothrips maafi
  • Brakothrips meandarra
  • Brakothrips pilbara
  • Brakothrips sculptilis
  • Brakothrips stenos
References

References

  1. Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2019). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
  2. "Australian Faunal Directory: Brakothrips". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  3. Bernard Crespi; David C Morris; Laurence Alfred Mound (2004). Evolution of Ecological and Behavioural Diversity: Australian AcaciaThrips as Model Organisms. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. pp. [146]. ISBN 0-9750206-1-7. Wikidata Q111661506.
  4. "Factsheet - Brakothrips". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  5. Laurence A Mound; Alice Wells (16 July 2020). "Host-shifts at family level in the Australian Acacia-thrips lineage (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with two new species". Zootaxa. 4816 (2): 202–208. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4816.2.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33055704. Wikidata Q100553716.
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