Uzelothrips

{{Short description|Genus of thrips}}

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| fossil_range = {{Geological range|55.8|0|ref=}}Lower Eocene – Recent

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| taxon = Uzelothrips

| authority = Hood, 1952

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Uzelothrips is a genus of thrips, and the only genus in the family Uzelothripidae. Up until 2012 it contained a single species, U. scabrosus, known from Belém, Brazil; Brisbane, Australia; Singapore, and Angola. In 2012 a new extinct species, U. eocenicus, was described from the lowermost Eocene of France by Patricia Nel and André Nel in 2012. The species name refers to the age it existed in.{{Cite journal|url=http://app.pan.pl/article/item/app20110016.html |doi=10.4202/app.2011.0016 |title=Fossil thrips of the family Uzelothripidae suggest 53 million years of morphological and ecological stability |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |year=2011 |last1=Nel |first1=Patricia |doi-access=free }} The group name is in honour of Jindřich (or Heinrich) Uzel, a Czech entomologist who published the first monograph on the thrips.{{cite journal| journal=Zootaxa

|volume=2645|pages= 55–63 |year=2010| title= Heinrich Uzel, the father of Thysanoptera studies| author1=Fedor, Peter J.|author2=Doričová, M.|author3=Prokop, Pavol| author4=Mound, Laurence A.|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2645.1.3 |doi-access=free}} The family is identified by the whip-like tip to the antenna.{{cite journal|author=Hood, J. Douglas| title=Brasilian Thysanoptera III| journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington| volume=65| year=1952| pages=141–176|url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedings6465195152biol#page/140/mode/1up/}}

U. scabrosus is known to inhabit dead debris from plants in the genera Hevea and Bixa, as well as the species Eucalyptus major.