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== Nomenclatural details ==
''Phloeothrips spinipes'' Bagnall, 1908: 195.
 
''Ormothrips inermis'' Buffa, 1909: 168.

''Ecacanthothrips bagnalli'' Priesner, 1930: 364.

''Ecacanthothrips guineaensis'' Moulton, 1947: 176.

== Biology and Distribution ==
Described from New Guinea (''P. spinipes, O. inermis, E. guineaensis'') and Kei Island, Malaysia (''E. bagnalli''). Recorded from Solomon Islands.
== References ==
Bagnall RS (1908) On some new genera and species of Thysanoptera. ''Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland'' 3: 183–217. 

Buffa (1909) I Tisanotteri esotici esistenti nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. ''Redia'' 5: 157-172.

Priesner H (1930) Indomalayische Thysanopteren II. ''Treubia'' 11: 357–371.

Moulton D (1947) Thysanoptera from New Guinea, the Philippine Islands and the Malay Peninsular. ''Pan-Pacific Entomologist'' 23: 172–180. 

Palmer JM & Mound LA (1978). Nine genera of fungus-feeding Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera) from the Oriental Region. ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology'' 37: 153–215.
== Type information ==
Holotype female (''P. spinipes''), The Natural History Museum, London. 

Holotype female (''E. guineaensis''), California Academy of Science, San Francisco.

Holotype male (''E. bagnalli''), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

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