Mirothrips arbiter
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Nomenclatural details
Mirothrips arbiter Cavalleri, Souza, Prezotto & Mound, 2013: 334.
Biology and Distribution
Described from Brazil, breeding inside the nests of Polistine wasps and feeding on their eggs.
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.
