Megalurothrips

Genus information

Megalurothrips Bagnall, 1915: 589. Type species Megalurothrips typicus Bagnall, 1915, by monotypy.

Taeniothrips (Pongamiothrips) Ananthakrishnan, 1962: 90. Type species Physothrips peculiaris Bagnall 1918, by monotypy. Synonymised by Bhatti 1969: 240.

Lundathrips Bournier, 1979: 5. Type species Lundathrips inopinatus Bournier, 1979, by monotypy. Synonymised by Bhatti 1990: 238.

Biology and Distribution

Old World tropics, in Fabaceae flowers.

References

Bagnall RS (1915) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera. VI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)15: 588–597.

Ananthakrishnan TN (1962) Some little known Indian Terebrantia (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Royal entomological Society of London B 31: 87–91.

Bhatti JS (1969) The taxonomic status of Megalurothrips Bagnall. Oriental Insects 3: 239-244.

Bournier A (1979) Thysanoptères d'Angola, VII. Garcia de Orta, Zoologia 8: 1–10.

Bhatti JS (1990) Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology) 2: 205-352.

Palmer JM (1987) Megalurothrips in the flowers of tropical legumes: a morphometric study. pp 480-495 in, Holman J, Pelikan J, Dixon AFG & Weismann L. [Eds] Population structure, genetics and taxonomy of aphids and Thysanoptera. The Hague (SPB Academic Publishing): .