Acanthothrips

Genus information

Acanthothrips Uzel, 1895: 259. Type species Phloeothrips nodicornis Reuter 1880, by monotypy.

Notothrips Hood, 1933: 200. Type species Phloeothrips vittatus Hood 1912, by original designation. Synonymised by Stannard, 1957: 24.

Biology and Distribution

Fungus feeding on dead branches, mainly Holarctic, but also Neotropical.

References

Uzel H (1895) Monographie der Ordnung Thysanoptera. Königratz, Bohemia : . pp. 1–472.

Hood JD (1933) Notothrips folsomi, a new genus and species of Thysanoptera from the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 35: 200–205.

Stannard LJ (1957) The phylogeny and classification of the North American genera of the sub-order Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Illinois Biological Monographs 25: 1-200.