小笠原諸島を除く日本全土に広く分布する。台湾や中国にも分布し、おそらく東アジア広く分布するものと思われる。日本では本属中もっとも普通にみられる。メスでは長翅型と短翅型が知られるが、オスでは今のところ短翅型のみが知られている。枯れ木に生息し時に群生するが、キノコにも見られる。食菌性。

This species is widely distributed throughout Japan except for the Ogasawara Islands. It is also distributed in Taiwan and China, and is probably widely distributed in East Asia. It is the most common Hoplothrips species in Japan. Females are known from both macropterae and micropterae, but in males only micropterae are known so far. It lives on dead trees and sometimes makes large colonies, but it can also be found in fungi. Fungus-feeder.

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  Colony

  

  Female macroptera

  

  Female macroptera, head and thorax

  

  Female microptera

  

  Female microptera, head and thorax

  

  Male microptera

  

  Male microptera, head and thorax