Mirothrips bicolor
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Nomenclatural details
Mirothrips bicolor Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013: 338.
Biology and Distribution
Described from Southern Brazil, this species is usually associated with dead twigs and empty Cecidomyiidae leaf galls. It is presumably predatory on small arthropods.
References
Cavalleri, A; Souza, AR; Prezotto, F & Mound, LA (2013) Egg predation within the nests of social wasps: a new genus and species of Phlaeothripidae, with consideration of the evolutionary consequences of Thysanoptera invasive behaviour. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109: 332-341.
Type information
Holotype female, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
