Biology:Akthethrips

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Short description: Genus of thrips

Akthethrips
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Thysanoptera
Family: Phlaeothripidae
Genus: Akthethrips
Mound, 1970
Type species
Akthethrips strobus
Mound, 1970

Akthethrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae,[1][2] first described by Laurence Mound in 1970.[1][3] There is just one species in this genus, Akthethrips strobus, which is found in New South Wales and South Australia, living on the foliage of Casuarina glauca, and Casuarina pauper.[4]

It is suggested that the elongate stylets of this species (and genus) "are adapted to feeding on the chlorophyllous tissue of Casuarina(s)"[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Genus Akthethrips Mound, 1970". https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Akthethrips. 
  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. 3.0 3.1 , pp. 439-463 [452] , Wikidata Q99639750
  4. "Factsheet - Akthethrips". https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v4/thrips/tubulifera/key/key/australian_tubulifera/Media/Html/Entities/akthethrips.htm. 

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