Plesiothrips

Genus information

Plesiothrips Hood, 1915: 129. Type species Sericothrips perplexa Beach 1897, by monotypy.

Ornothrips Ananthakrishnan, 1965: 17. Type species Thrips panicus Moulton 1929 (=Plesiothrips perplexus), by original designation. Synonym by Ananthakrishnan, 1969.

Biology and Distribution

Neotropical in origin, on Poaceae

References

Beach AM (1897) Contribution to a knowledge of the Thripidae of Iowa. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 3: 214-227.

Hood JD (1915) An interesting case of antennal antigeny in Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 17: 128–132.

Ananthakrishnan TN (1965) Indian Terebrantia - II (Thysanoptera: Insecta). Bulletin of Entomology, India 6: 15–29.

Mound L, Lima E, O’Donnell C & Cavalleri A (2016) New World grass thrips of the genus Plesiothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Austral Entomology 55: 340-346.