Koptothrips
Genus of thrips
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Koptothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae,[1] first described by Richard Siddoway Bagnall in 1929.[2]
| Koptothrips | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Thysanoptera |
| Family: | Phlaeothripidae |
| Genus: | Koptothrips Bagnall, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Koptothrips flavicornis Bagnall, 1929 | |
Species in this genus are kleptoparasites, that is they steal galls made by thrips in the Kladothrips genus on Acacia phyllodes. They kill the Kladothrips adults but feed on the gall.[3]
