extant species
Zeugmatothrips cinctus
Biology and distribution
Described from Belem, Para, Brazil from dead leaves of various palms and from Heliconia psittacorum.
Distribution: Brazil, French Guyana (Ulitzka unpublished).
Zeugmatothrips cinctus is a fungus-feeder on dead and decaying leaves.
References
Hood JD (1952) Brasilian Thysanoptera III. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 65: 141–174.
Pitkin BR (1978) Lectotype designations of certain species of thrips described by J.D.Hood and notes on his collection (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 80: 264–295.
Retana-Salazar AP (2009) Monografía de los Grupos Genéricos Anactinothrips – Zeugmatothrips (Tubulifera: Idolothripinae). Editorial Fundación Instituto Centroamericano para la Investigación en Biología y Conservación ECIBRC., 1–141.
Type information
Lectotype ♀ : National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Paralectotype ♀: British Museum of Natural History, London.