Callococcithrips

Genus information

Callococcithrips Mound & Wells, 2007: 58. Type species Rhynchothrips fuscipennis Moulton 1968, by original designation.

Biology and Distribution

The genus includes two species from Australia associated with waxy Coccoidea.

References

Mound LA & Wells A (2007) A new genus for an Australian thrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) presumed predatory on a waxy eriococcid (Hemiptera, Coccoidea). Zootaxa 1645: 57–61.

Species

Callococcithrips atratus (Moulton, 1935)

Callococcithrips fuscipennis (Moulton, 1968)