Pezothrips

Genus information

Pezothrips Karny, 1907: 45. Type species Physopus frontalis Uzel 1895, by monotypy.

Yaothrips Mirab-balou et al., 2011: 47. Type species Y. shii Mirab-balou et al., by monotypy. Synonymised by Tong & Liu, 2019: 598.

Biology and Distribution

Presumably southern Palaearctic, in flowers.

References

Karny H (1907) Die Orthopterenfauna des Küstengebietes von Österreich-Ungarn. Berlin Entomologische Zeitschrift 52: 17–52.

zur Strassen (2003) Die terebranten Thysanopteren Europas und des Mittelmeer-Gebietes. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 74: 1-271.

Mirab-Balou M, Wei S-J, Lu H & Chen X-X (2011) Yaothrips shii gen. et sp. n. from western China (Thripidae: Thripinae). Zootaxa 2900: 46–50.

Tong X & Liu L (2019) Yaothrips as a new synonym of Pezothrips, with description of the male of Pezothrips pediculae comb.n. (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Zootaxa 4646 (3): 598–600.

Species

Pezothrips bactrianus (Pelikan, 1968)

Pezothrips brodskii (Yakhontov, 1937)

Pezothrips brunicornis Mirab-balou & Tong, 2011

Pezothrips cereus (Pelikan, 1964)

Pezothrips dianthi (Priesner, 1921)

Pezothrips frontalis (Uzel, 1895)

Pezothrips kaszabi (Pelikan, 1972)

Pezothrips kellyanus (Bagnall, 1916)

Pezothrips moravicus (Pelikan, 1951)

Pezothrips nadeshiko Masumoto & Okajima, 2020

Pezothrips nigriventris (Pelikan, 1956)

Pezothrips pediculae (Han, 1988)

Pezothrips pelikani Masumoto & Okajima, 2020