Phaulothrips

Genus information

Phaulothrips Hood, 1918: 146. Type species Phaulothrips vuilleti Hood, by monotypy.

Titanothrips Karny, 1920: 44. Type species Titanothrips portentosus Karny, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound,1974: 78.

Tetraceratothrips Bagnall, 1924: 628. Type species Tetraceratothrips agrestis Bagnall, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound,1974: 78.

Kaleidothrips Kelly & Mayne, 1934: 73. Type species Kaleidothrips inquilinus Kelly & Mayne, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer, 1983: 27.

Biology and Distribution

From Australia and western Pacific, on dead branches possibly in tunnels made by beetles and bees.

References

Hood JD (1918) New genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 121–150.

Karny H (1920) Nova Australska Thysanoptera, jez nashbiral Mjöberg. Casopis Ceskoslovenské spolecnosti entomologiscké 17: 35–44.

Bagnall RS (1924) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera. XIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)14: 625–640.

Kelly R & Mayne RJB (1934) The Australian Thrips. A monograph of the Order Thysanoptera in Australia. Australian Medical Publishing Co. Ltd, Glebe, New South Wales.

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1983) The generic and tribal classification of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 46 : 1–174.

Mound LA & Tree DC (2013) Australian spore-feeding thrips of the genus Phaulothrips (Thysanoptera, Idolothripinae). Zootaxa 3608(4): 239-252.