Uzelothrips

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Thysanoptera
Subordo: Terebrantia

Familia: Uzelothripidae
Genus: Uzelothrips
Species (1): U. scabrosus
Name

Uzelothrips Hood, 1952

Primary references

Hood 1952: Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., 65, 143.

Uzelothrips is a genus of thrips, and the only genus in the family Uzelothripidae. Up until 2012 it contained a single species, U. scabrosus, known from Belém, Brazil; Brisbane, Australia; Singapore, and Angola. In 2012 a new extinct species, U. eocenicus, was described from the lowermost Eocene of France by Patricia Nel and André Nel in 2012. The species name refers to the age it existed in.[1] The group name is in honour of Jindřich (or Heinrich) Uzel, a Czech entomologist who published the first monograph on the thrips.[2] The family is identified by the whip-like tip to the antenna.[3]

U. scabrosus is known to inhabit dead debris from plants in the genera Hevea and Bixa, as well as the species Eucalyptus major.[1]

References

Nel, Patricia (2011). "Fossil thrips of the family Uzelothripidae suggest 53 million years of morphological and ecological stability". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0016.
Fedor, Peter J.; Doričová, M.; Prokop, Pavol; Mound, Laurence A. (2010). "Heinrich Uzel, the father of Thysanoptera studies". Zootaxa. 2645: 55–63.

Hood, J. Douglas (1952). "Brasilian Thysanoptera III". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 65: 141–176.

External links

Uzelothrips at the Paleobiology Database