Callococcithrips Mound & Wells

Callococcithrips Mound & Wells, 2007: 58 . Type species Rhynchothrips fuscipennis Moulton, 1968: 97, by original designation

This genus was erected for two species, one from eastern Australia and one from Western Australia. In these species, the maxillary stylets are unusually long and overlap medially in the head. Referred to the genus Teuchothrips by Mound & Houston (1987: 18), the type species lives within the waxy covering of an eriococcid, on which it is presumed to be predatory (Mound & Wells, 2007). The second species, Liothrips atratus Moulton, is known only from a single female that was collected near Perth in 1931.