Uzelothrips
| Uzelothrips | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Thysanoptera |
| Suborder: | Terebrantia |
| Family: | Uzelothripidae |
| Genus: | Uzelothrips Hood, 1952 |
Uzelothrips is a genus of thrips, and the only genus in the family Uzelothripidae. Up until 2012 it contained a single species, U. scabrosus, known from Belém, Brazil; Brisbane, Australia; Singapore, and Angola. In 2012 a new extinct species, U. eocenicus, was described from the lowermost Eocene of France by Patricia Nel and André Nel in 2012. The species name refers to the age it existed in.[1]
U. scabrosus is known to inhabit dead debris from plants in the genera Hevea and Bixa, as well as the species Eucalyptus major.[1]
References
- 1 2 Patricia Nel, Alexander R. Schmidt, Claus Bässler and André Nel (2012). "Fossil thrips of the family Uzelothripidae suggest 53 million years of morphological and ecological stability". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. In press. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0016.
External links
- Uzelothrips at the Paleobiology Database
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