Aduncothrips
Genus information
Erythrothrips (Aduncothrips) Ananthakrishnan, 1963: 99. Type species Erythrothrips asiaticus Ramakrishna & Margabandhu, by monotypy.
Desmidothrips Mound, 1977 : 149. Type species Desmidothrips walkerae Mound, by original designation. Synonymised by Li et. al. 2022.
Biology and Distribution
Among seven species in this genus, two recorded from New Zealand and New Caledonia, one (A. asiaticus) just from India, three from China and A. japonicus is recorded from both Japan and China. A. asiaticus was found to be predatory on several different Thripidae but the feeding habits of other Aduncothrips species are not yet clear.
References
Ananthakrishnan TN (1963) The Terebrantian Thysanoptera of the Indo-Ceylonese Region. Treubia. 26: 73–122.
Mound LA (1977) A new genus of Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 4: 149–152.
Bhatti JS (1990) Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology) 2: 205-352.
Li Y, Elie N, Liu H & Zhang H (2022) Aduncothrips newly recorded from China, with three new species and a new generic synonym (Thysanoptera: Aeolothripidae). Zootaxa 5141: 49–59.
Species
Aduncothrips albus Li, Elie, Liu & Zhang, 2022
Aduncothrips asiaticus (Ramakrishna & Margabandhu, 1931)
Aduncothrips huapingensis Li, Elie, Liu & Zhang, 2022
Aduncothrips inauditus (Bianchi, 1945)
Aduncothrips japonicus (Masumoto & Okajima, 2019)
Aduncothrips kailiensis Li, Elie, Liu & Zhang, 2022
Aduncothrips walkerae (Mound, 1977)
