A new Brazilian species of Heterothrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) co-existing with ants in the flowers of Peixotoa tomentosa (Malpighiaceae)
A new Brazilian species of Heterothrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) co-existing with ants in the flowers of Peixotoa tomentosa (Malpighiaceae)
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巴西新种异蓟马（昆虫纲：缨翅目）与蚂蚁共存于 Peixotoa tomentosa（金虎尾科）的花中
DOI：
10.1080/00222939700770731
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
L. Mound
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作者：
K. Del‐Claro;R. Marullo;L. Mound
PeixotoaDel-Claro、Marullo和Mound为新种。它的前翅非常苍白，生活在巴西塞拉多的一种金雀花属灌木的花中。每朵花的萼片都是S形的，并包围着一个中央空腔，蓟马在其中生活和繁殖。虽然一些大型蚂蚁无法进入这个空腔，但其他蚂蚁足够小，可以进入花瓣和萼片之间的空间，这导致了蓟马数量的减少。该属的其他几个成员是已知的，从其他种类的花锦葵科。
Heterothrips peixotoa Del-Claro, Marullo and Mound is described as new. It has remarkably pale forewings, and lives in the flowers of a malpighiaceous shrub in Brazilian cerrado. The sepals of each flower are S-shaped and enclose a central cavity within which the thrips live and breed. Although some large ants are unable to penetrate this cavity, other ants are small enough to enter the space between the petals and sepals, and this leads to a reduction in thrips numbers. Several other members of this genus of thrips are known from the flowers of other species of Malpighiaceae.