Aptinothrips Haliday, 1836

Rasool, Iftekhar, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Alattal, Yehya Zaki & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2021, The Anaphothrips genus-group of Thripidae (Thysanoptera) from Saudi Arabia with two new species of Eremiothrips, Journal of Natural History 55 (25 - 26), pp. 1599-1617 : 1605

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2021.1939187

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scientific name

Aptinothrips Haliday
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This genus comprises five apterous, grass-living species, four described from Europe, with Ap. iraniensis described from Iran ( Alavi 2020). The genus can be distinguished from other members of the Anaphothrips genus-group by the following character states: apterous; head longer than wide; ocelli absent; antennal segments III–IV with simple sense cone. The species of this genus feed and breed on the leaves and leaf-sheaths of various species of Poaceae ( Masumoto and Okajima 2017) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Thripidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Thripidae

Genus

Aptinothrips

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