Mirothrips
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Genus information
Mirothrips Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013: 333. Type species Dexiothrips bicolor Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013, by designation.
Biology and Distribution
Three species, from South America and all 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.
Species
Mirothrips analis (De Santis, 1959)
Mirothrips arbiter Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013
Mirothrips bicolor Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013
