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Senithrips

Senithrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, found in Western Australia, and first described by Laurence Mound and Kambiz Minaei in 2006. The genus contains just one species, Senithrips psomus.

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Senithrips
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Thysanoptera
Family: Phlaeothripidae
Genus: Senithrips
Mound & Minaei, 2006

Senithrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae,12 found in Western Australia, and first described by Laurence Mound and Kambiz Minaei in 2006.13 The genus contains just one species, Senithrips psomus.4

Senithrips psomus is a fungus feeding thrips, whose holotype was collected on Barrow Island, Western Australia in Triodia angusta grassland.4

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  1. "Australian Faunal Directory: Senithrips". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  2. 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.
  3. LAURENCE A. MOUND; KAMB MINAEI (14 March 2006). "New fungus-feeding thrips (Thysanoptera–Phlaeothripinae) from tropical Australia". Zootaxa. 1150 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.1150.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q97462870.
  4. "Senithrips Mound & Minaei, 2006". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-06-21.