Heliothrips

Genus information

Heliothrips Haliday, 1836: 443. Type species Heliothrips adonidum Haliday 1836, synonym of Thrips haemorrhoidalis Bouché, by monotypy.

Biology and Distribution

Leaf-feeding tropical species.

References

Haliday AH (1836) An epitome of the British genera in the Order Thysanoptera with indications of a few of the species. Entomological Magazine 3: 439–451.

Nakahara S, O’Donnell CA & Mound LA (2015) Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis and its relatives, with one new species and one new genus (Thysanoptera). Zootaxa 4021 (4): 578–584.

Species

Heliothrips ardisiae Zimmermann, 1900

Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché, 1833)

Heliothrips longisensibilis Xie, Mound & Zhang, 2019

† Heliothrips scudderi Bagnall, 1924

Heliothrips similis Nakahara, O'Donnell & Mound, 2015

Heliothrips zucchi Mound & Monteiro, 1997