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The New World grass‐thrips genus Plesiothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and its palaeotropical relationships
Author(s) -
Mound Laurence,
Lima Elison,
O'Donnell Cheryle,
Cavalleri Adriano
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
austral entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 2052-1758
pISSN - 2052-174X
DOI - 10.1111/aen.12198
Subject(s) - thripidae , thrips , synonym (taxonomy) , biology , genus , key (lock) , character (mathematics) , identification (biology) , zoology , identification key , botany , ecology , mathematics , geometry
Abstract Morphological character states displayed by Plesiothrips Hood, a New World genus of grass‐living thrips, are assessed. This assessment indicates that Plesiothrips shares more character states with genera from Southeast Asia, including the Trichromothrips genus‐group, than with any New World Thripinae. Sorghothrips sakagami (Kudo) comb. n. is removed from Plesiothrips ; Taeniothrips aberrans Crawford syn. n. is considered a new synonym of Plesiothrips amblycauda Hood; and an illustrated identification key is given to 16 Plesiothrips species for which females are known.