Pygothrips
Genus information
Pygothrips Hood, 1915: 49. Type species Pygothrips rugicauda Hood, by monotypy.
Barythrips Hood & Williams, 1915: 134, Type species Barythrips sculpticauda Hood & Williams, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer, 1983: 28.
Diplochelaeothrips Moulton, 1944: 284. Type species Diplochelaeothrips mikrommatos Moulton, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer, 1983: 28.
Biology and Distribution
Most species from Neotropics, but the genus will probably prove to be pantropical.
References
Hood JD (1915) A remarkable new thrips from Australia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 28: 49–51.
Hood JD & Williams CB (1915) New Thysanoptera from Florida and Louisiana. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 23: 121–138.
Moulton D (1944) Thysanoptera of Fiji. Occasional Papers of the Bishop Museum 17: 267–311.
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.
Species
Pygothrips albiceps Hood, 1938
Pygothrips brevis Okajima, 2006
Pygothrips callipygus Hood, 1952
Pygothrips flavomaculatus Okajima, 1990
Pygothrips fortis Hood, 1938
Pygothrips fusculus Okajima, 1990
Pygothrips longiceps Hood, 1952
Pygothrips magnicauda Hood, 1954
Pygothrips mikrommatos (Moulton, 1944)
Pygothrips needhami Hood, 1938
Pygothrips postocellaris Okajima, 1990
Pygothrips pygus (Mound, 1974)
Pygothrips rugicauda Hood, 1915
Pygothrips sculpticauda (Hood & Williams, 1915)
Pygothrips shavianus (Bagnall, 1918)
Pygothrips vicinus Okajima, 1990
Pygothrips zeteki Hood, 1934
