Akthethrips

Akthethrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae,^[1][2] first described by Laurence Mound in 1970.^[1][3] There is just one species in this genus, Akthethrips strobus, which is found in New South Wales and South Australia, living on the foliage of Casuarina glauca, and Casuarina pauper.^[4]

Akthethrips
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Thysanoptera
Family:	Phlaeothripidae
Genus:	Akthethrips Mound, 1970
Type species
Akthethrips strobus Mound, 1970

It is suggested that the elongate stylets of this species (and genus) "are adapted to feeding on the chlorophyllous tissue of Casuarina(s)"^[3]