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== Nomenclatural details ==
''Sophiothrips politus'' Hood, 1955: 72. 
== Biology and Distribution ==
Described from Para, Belem, Brazil, with one paratype from Guyana. 
== References ==
Hood JD (1955) Brasilian Thysanoptera VI. ''Revista Brasileira de Entomologia'' 4: 51–160.

Mound LA (1977) Leaf-litter Thysanoptera of the sub-tribe Williamsiellina (Phlaeothripidae). ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology'' 36: 171–192. 
== Type information ==
Holotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
[[category: Sophiothrips species]][[category: Phlaeothripinae species]][[category:Thysanoptera species extant]]