Stephanothrips

Genus information

Stephanothrips Trybom, 1912: 42. Type species Stephanothrips buffai Trybom, 1913, by monotypy.

Baenothrips Crawford, 1948: 39. Type species Baenothrips guatemalensis Crawford 1948, by monotypy. Synonymy by Mound et al. 2023: 99.

Verrucothrips Stannard, 1952: 128. Type species Amphibolothrips (Verrucothrips) caenosa Stannard 1952, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound, 1972: 92, also Mound et al. 2023: 99.

Ramachandraiella Ananthakrishnan, 1964: 228. Type species Ramachandraiella minuta Ananthakrishnan 1964, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound, 1972: 92, a;so Mound et al. 2023: 99.

Transithrips Bournier, 1963: 81. Type species Transithrips asper Bournier 1963, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound, 1972: 92, also Mound et al. 2023: 99.

Bournieria Ananthakrishnan, 1966: 2. Type species Bournieria indica Ananthakrishnan 1966, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound, 1972: 92, also Mound et al. 2023: 99.

Biology and Distribution

Widespread genus in warm countries, fungus-feeding on dead branches and in leaf-litter

References

Trybom F (1912) Physapoden aus natal und dem Zululande. Arkiv för Zoologi 7 (33): 1–52.

Crawford JC (1948) A new genus of Urothripidae from Guatemala. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 50: 39–40.

Stannard LJ (1952) A new Australian Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera: Tubulifera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 66: 127–130.

Bournier A (1963) Thysanoptères de l'Angola. II. Publicaçoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 63: 73–86.

Ananthakrishnan TN (1964) Thysanopterologica Indica II. Entomologisk Tidskrift 85: 218–235.

Ananthakrishnan TN (1966) Thysanopterologica Indica - IV. Bulletin of Entomology, India 7: 1–12.

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.

Okajima S (1989) Five new species of the genus Stephanothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) from Southeast Asia, with a key to the East Asian species. Japanese Journal of Entomology 57: 25-36.

Mound LA, Lima EFB & O’Donnell CA (2023) What is a genus – interpreting structural diversity among species of urothripine Phlaeothripinae (Thysanoptera). Zootaxa 5319 (1): 091–102. DOI: org/10.11646/zootaxa.5319.1.6