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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Thrips (Thysanoptera) » Tube-tailed Thrips (Phlaeothripidae) » Idolothripinae » Elaphrothrips » Elaphrothrips tuberculatus
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Thrips - Elaphrothrips tuberculatus
Copyright © 2014 tom murray

Thrips - Elaphrothrips tuberculatus
Boxborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 17, 2014
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Contributed by tom murray on 18 May, 2014 - 10:48pm
Last updated 30 July, 2017 - 7:25pm

male
with enlarged forelegs with tarsal hooks
… ophis, 21 October, 2023 - 9:59am login or register to post comments

Elaphrothrips tuberculatus (Hood)
Moved from Tube-tailed Thrips. Tentatively ID'd from specimen, now a photo-voucher. Thanks Tom.

Via twitter, Manfred Ulitzka says: "Looks like Elaphrothrips (possibly E. tuberculatus)." I checked a key and it does appear to be E. tuberculatus.
… Brad Barnd, 30 July, 2017 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Specimen deposited in TAMUIC
… Brad Barnd, 10 November, 2021 - 3:40pm login or register to post comments

 
Elaphrothrips tuberculatus
Nice detective work Brad. It's not only a new species for the guide, also a new genus and subfamily.
… tom murray, 30 July, 2017 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

 
there is another genus there
It's just hiding for a bit since I moved taxa around. :)
… Brad Barnd, 30 July, 2017 - 7:41pm login or register to post comments

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