Scolothrips uzeli (Schille)

Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Species recognition in the genus Scolothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), predators of leaf-feeding mites, Zootaxa 2797, pp. 45-53 : 52

Scolothrips uzeli (Schille)

Chaetothrips Uzeli Schille, 1911: 5

Based on females collected from Juniperus in Poland, this was described as the type species of the synonymic genus Chaetothrips Schille. It is now recognised as widespread in northern and central Europe on Juniperus communis (zur Strassen, 2003), presumably in association with some particular but unrecorded mite prey. It is a small species, with apterous males. In females, the body and wing shadings are particularly diffuse and often weak, but the colour of the fore wing clavus seems to be unique in the genus, dark to the apex but with the posterior margin pale. One out of 15 females studied from Netherlands, had a single pronotal posteromesad discal seta (in ANIC).