Chiraplothrips

Genus information

Chiraplothrips Priesner, 1931: 271. Type species Haplothrips (Chiraplothrips) faureanus Priesner 1931, by monotypy.

Biology and Distribution

Genus includes species described from Africa but also recorded from Mediterranean region and India.

References

Palaeotropical species similar to Haplothrips, living on Poaceae. Priesner H (1931) Review of the African Haplothrips-species (Thysanoptera). Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d'Egypte 14: 230–277.

Species

Chiraplothrips faureanus Priesner, 1931

Chiraplothrips graminellus Priesner, 1939

Chiraplothrips sudanensis Priesner, 1936