Urothrips

Genus information

Urothrips Bagnall, 1909: 126. Type species Urothrips paradoxus Bagnall, 1909, by monotypy.

Biology and Distribution

Fungus-feeding in leaf-litter, from Africa.

References

Bagnall RS (1909) On Urothrips paradoxus, a new type of Thysanopterous insects. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 7: 125–136.

Mound LA (1972) Species complexes and the generic classification of leaf-litter thrips of the Tribe Urothripini (Phlaeothripidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 20: 83-103.

Species

Urothrips bagnalli Trybom, 1913

Urothrips gibberosa (Kudo, 1989)

Urothrips junctus (Okajima & Urushihara, 1995)

Urothrips kobroi Ulitzka & Mound, 1933

Urothrips minor Faure, 1933

Urothrips paradoxus Bagnall, 1909

Urothrips reedi (Stannard, 1970)

Urothrips reticulatus (Bournier, 1963)

Urothrips tarai (Stannard, 1970)