Bamboosiella

Genus information

Bamboosiella Ananthakrishnan, 1957: 65. Type species Bamboosiella bicoloripes Ananthakrishnan 1957, by monotypy.

Antillothrips Stannard, 1957: 35. Type species Antillothrips graminatus Stannard 1957, by monotypy. Synonymised by Okajima, 1995: 304.

Elatea Faure, 1957: 400. Type species Elatea stannardi Faure 1957, by monotypy. Synonymised by Pitkin, 1977: 54.

Xenothrips Ananthakrishnan, 1965: 53. Type species Xenothrips malabaricus Ananthakrishnan 1965, by monotypy. Synonymised by Pitkin, 1976: 231.

Biology and Distribution

Old World tropics, in association with Poaceae.

References

Ananthakrishnan TN (1957) Bamboosiella nov.gen. (Phlaeothripidae, Tubulifera) from India. Entomological News 68: 65-68.

Stannard LJ (1957) The phylogeny and classification of the North American genera of the sub-order Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Illinois Biological Monographs 25: 1-200.

Faure JC (1957) South African Thysanoptera – 7. Journal of the entomological Society of southern Africa 20: 391-419.

Ananthakrishnan TN (1965) Thysanopterologica Indica – III. Entomologisk Tidskrift 86: 49-63.

Pitkin BR (1976) A revision of the Indian species of Haplothrips and related genera (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 34: 221-280.

Pitkin BR (1977)The genus Antillothrips Stannard, with descriptions of two new species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Systematic Entomology 2: 53-58.

Okajima S (1995) A revision of the bamboo- and grass-inhabiting genus Bamboosiella Ananthakrishnan (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) II. Japanese Journal of Entomology 63: 469-484.

Dang LH & Qiao GX (2016) Species of the Poaceae-associated genus Bamboosiella (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) from China, with three new species. Zootaxa 4184 (3): 541–552.