Ozothrips

Genus information

Ozothrips Mound & Palmer, 1983: 24. Type species Ozothrips priscus Mound & Palmer, by original designation.

Biology and Distribution

Five species are known only from New Zealand, living on dead leaves. One species (O. meanjini) described from Australia collected by insecticide spraying of tree bark.

References

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1983) The generic and tribal classification of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 46: 1-174.

Mound LA & Desley TJ (2021) Tubuliferous Thysanoptera in Australia with an enlarged tenth abdominal segment (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), including six new species. Zootaxa 4951 (1): 167–181.

Species

Ozothrips eurytis Mound & Palmer, 1983

Ozothrips janus Mound & Palmer, 1983

Ozothrips meanjini Mound & Tree, 2021

Ozothrips priscus Mound & Palmer, 1983

Ozothrips tubulatus Mound & Walker, 1986

Ozothrips vagus Mound & Walker, 1986