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== Genus information ==
''Mycterothrips'' Trybom, 1910: 158. Type species ''Mycterothrips laticauda'' Trybom, 1910, by monotypy. 

''Physothrips'' Karny, 1912: 336. Type species by original designation ''Thrips ulmifoliorum'' Haliday, 1836, misidentification of ''Thrips salicis'' Reuter, 1879, subsequently designated by Mound & O'Neill, 1969. Synonymised by Bhatti, 1970.

''Taeniothrips'' (''Rhopalandrothrips'') Priesner, 1922: 68. Type species  ''Thrips'' (''Euthrips'') ''consociata'' Targioni-Tozzetti, 1887, designated subsequently by Priesner, 1925: 148. Synonymised by Bhatti, 1970.

''Pseudoscirtothrips'' Bournier, 1979: 8. Type species ''Pseudoscirtothrips imbimbiachetae'' Bournier, 1979, by monotypy. Synonymised by Bhatti, 1990: 241.

== Biology and Distribution ==
Widely spread in Asia, Europe and America in flowers and leaf litter.

== References ==
Trybom F (1910) Physapoda, in Schultze, Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrica (1903-1905). ''Denksch. Med.-naturw. Ges. Jena'' 16: 147-174.

Karny H (1912) Revision der von Serville aufgestellten Thysanopteren-Genera. ''Zoologische Annalen'' 4: 322-344. 

Mound LA & O'Neill K (1969) ''Physothrips'' Karny, 1912 (Insecta, Thysanoptera): Proposed designation of a type-species under the plenary powers. N.Z. (S.) 1869. ''Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature'' 26: 51-53.

Bhatti JS (1970) Taxonomic studies in some Thripini. ''Oriental Insects'' 3[1969]: 373-381. 

Priesner H (1922) Beiträge zur Lebensgeschichte der Thysanopteren. II. ''Rhopalandrothrips obscurus'' (Uz.), ''Taeniothrips salicis'' (Rt.) und ''Taeniothrips dianthi'' Pr. ''Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften'' 131: 67-75. 

Priesner H (1925) Katalog der europäischen Thysanoptera. ''Konowia'' 4: 141-159.  

Bhatti JS (1970) Taxonomic studies on some Thripini. ''Oriental Insects'' 3 (1969): 373-381.

Bournier A (1979) Thysanoptères d'Angola, VII. ''Garcia de Orta, Zoologia'' 8: 1-10. 

Bhatti JS (1990) Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. ''Zoology (Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology)'' 2: 205-352.

Masumoto M & Okajima S (2006) A revision of and key to the world species of ''Mycterothrips'' Trybom (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). ''Zootaxa'' 1261: 1–90. 
== Species ==
[[Mycterothrips acaciae]] Priesner, 1932

[[Mycterothrips albidicornis]] (Knechtel, 1923)
 
[[Mycterothrips albus]] (Moulton, 1911)
 
[[Mycterothrips annulicornis]] (Uzel, 1895) 

[[Mycterothrips arabicus]] Rasool et al. 2023

[[Mycterothrips araliae]] (Takahashi, 1936)

[[Mycterothrips auratus]] Wang, 1999

[[Mycterothrips aureus]] (Moulton, 1946) 

[[Mycterothrips betulae]] (Crawford JC, 1939)

[[Mycterothrips bicolor]] Li & Zhang, 2022

[[Mycterothrips cangshanensis]] Li & Zhang, 2022
 
[[Mycterothrips caudibrunneus]] Wang, 1999

[[Mycterothrips chaetogastra]]  (Ramakrishna, 1934)

[[Mycterothrips consociatus]] (Targioni-Tozzetti, 1887)

[[Mycterothrips daweishanensis]] Li & Zhang, 2022

[[Mycterothrips desleyae]] Masumoto & Okajima, 2006

[[Mycterothrips doostii]]  Minaei, Alichi, Fekrat, Aleosfoor & Minaei, 2017

[[Mycterothrips egonoki]] Masumoto & Okajima, 2006

[[Mycterothrips fasciatus]] Masumoto & Okajima, 2006

[[Mycterothrips glycines]] (Okamoto, 1911) 

[[Mycterothrips grandis]] Masumoto & Okajima, 2006

[[Mycterothrips gongshanensis]] Li, Li & Zhang, 2017

[[Mycterothrips hamedaniensis]] Mirab-Balou Shi & Chen, 2011

[[Mycterothrips hani]] Li & Zhang, 2022

[[Mycterothrips imbimbiachetae]] (Bournier, 1979) 

[[Mycterothrips japonicus]] Masumoto & Okajima, 1998

[[Mycterothrips laticauda]] Trybom, 1910

[[Mycterothrips latus]]  (Bagnall, 1912) 

[[Mycterothrips mahvelatensis]]  Alavi, Modarres Awal, Fekrat & Minaei, 2013 

[[Mycterothrips nainiae]] Singha, Patidar, Kumar & Tyagi, 2021

[[Mycterothrips nastarani]]  Alavi, Modarres Awal, Fekrat & Minaei, 2013

[[Mycterothrips nilgiriensis]] (Ananthakrishnan, 1960) 

[[Mycterothrips photiniae]] Li & Zhang, 2022

[[Mycterothrips ricini]] (Shumsher, 1946)

[[Mycterothrips saadii]]  Alichi & Minaei, 2019

[[Mycterothrips salicis]] (Reuter, 1879) 

[[Mycterothrips sanubari]]  Alavi, Modarres Awal, Fekrat & Minaei, 2013

[[Mycterothrips setiventris]] (Bagnall, 1918) 

[[Mycterothrips shihoae]] Masumoto & Okajima, 2006

[[Mycterothrips tschirkunae]] (Yakhontov, 1961) 

[[Mycterothrips weii]] Mirab-Balou Shi & Chen, 2011

[[Mycterothrips yamagishii]] Masumoto & Okajima, 2006

[[Mycterothrips yelangi]] Li, Li & Zhang, 2017

[[Mycterothrips zagrosi]]  Minaei, Alichi, Fekrat, Aleosfoor & Alavi, 2017

[[category:Thripinae genera]][[category:Thysanoptera genera extant]]