What is it about?
Hoplothrips carpathicus has been noted in a few European countries up today. It is fungivorous species which spends its life in fruit body of Fomes fomentarius and it feeds on spores and mycelium of this fungus.
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Why is it important?
The data on the biology of many species of thrips, especially the fungivorous ones, are very scarce. This paper, together with others on species of similar lifestyle, expands the knowledge on this theme.
Perspectives
The research on fungivorous species noted in Poland are continued, among the most important are these on morphology of preimaginal stages and microbiome of all life stages.
Halina Kucharczyk
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
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This page is a summary of: Hoplothrips carpathicus PELIKÁN, 1961 (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) – a new thrips species in the Polish fauna, Polish Journal of Entomology, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/pjen-2015-0007.
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