Cranothrips

Genus information

Cranothrips Bagnall, 1915: 315. Type species Cranothrips poultoni Bagnall, by monotypy.

Biology and Distribution

This genus comprises 11 flower-living species from Australia plus one from South Africa.

References

Bagnall RS (1915) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera. V. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)15: 315–324.

Pereyra V & Mound LA (2009) Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Cranothrips (Thysanoptera, Melanthripidae) with consideration of host associations and disjunct distributions within the family. Systematic Entomology 34: 151–161.

Mound LA, Tree DC & Paris D. (2012) Ozthrips – Thysanoptera in Australia. [1]

Species

Cranothrips bellisi Mound & Marullo, 1998

Cranothrips conostylus Pereyra & Mound, 2009

Cranothrips emersoni Girault, 1929

Cranothrips ibisca Pereyra & Mound, 2009

Cranothrips karrooensis Jacot-Guillarmod, 1937

Cranothrips kartus Mound, 1972

Cranothrips lauriei Marullo, 1995

Cranothrips poultoni Bagnall, 1915

Cranothrips ravidus Mound, 1972

Cranothrips sititor Mound, 1972

Cranothrips symoni Mound, 1972

Cranothrips vesper Mound, 1972