Strepterothrips

Genus information

Strepterothrips Hood, 1934: 431. Type species Strepterothrips conradi Hood, 1934, by monotypy.

Arcyothrips Hood, 1934: 114. Type species Arcyothrips africanus Hood, 1934, by monotypy. Synonymised by Stannard, 1957.

Biology and Distribution

Widespread genus, fungus-feeding on dead brances.

References

Hood JD (1934) New Thysanoptera from Panama. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 41: 407–434.

Hood JD (1934) Two new genera and species of Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 36: 111–120.

Stannard LJ (1957) The phylogeny and classification of the North American genera of the sub-order Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Illinois Biological Monographs 25: 1-200.

Mound LA & Ward A (1971) The genus Strepterothrips Hood and its relatives with a description of S. tuberculatus (Girault) comb.n. (Thysanoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 10: 98-104.