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| − | Species in the four extant genera of this family exhibit striking disjunct distributions. ''Cranothrips'' is known mainly from Australia with one species from South Africa; ''Dorythrips'' is known from Australia and western South America; ''Ankothrips'' is from western USA, Europe and South Africa; ''Melanthrips'' is mainly from Europe with a few species in Africa, India and north America | + | Originally placed as a subfamily of Aeolothripidae, this group is now distinguished because of the presence in adult females of a pair of lobes each bearing two setae on the posterior margin of the seventh sternite (Mound et al., 2012). In contrast to Aeolothripidae, the species are all phytophagous breeding in flowers. Species in the four extant genera of this family exhibit striking disjunct distributions. ''Cranothrips'' is known mainly from Australia with one species from South Africa (Pereyra & Mound, 2011); ''Dorythrips'' is known from Australia and western South America; ''Ankothrips'' is from western USA, Europe and South Africa; ''Melanthrips'' is mainly from Europe with a few species in Africa, India and north America. |
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Click to see a list of the [[:category:Melanthripidae species|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Melanthripidae species}}]] species. | Click to see a list of the [[:category:Melanthripidae species|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Melanthripidae species}}]] species. | ||
Click to see a list of the [[:category:Fossil Melanthripidae |{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Fossil Melanthripidae }}]] Fossil taxa. | Click to see a list of the [[:category:Fossil Melanthripidae |{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Fossil Melanthripidae }}]] Fossil taxa. | ||
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Revision as of 22:13, 8 November 2012
Melanthripidae
Originally placed as a subfamily of Aeolothripidae, this group is now distinguished because of the presence in adult females of a pair of lobes each bearing two setae on the posterior margin of the seventh sternite (Mound et al., 2012). In contrast to Aeolothripidae, the species are all phytophagous breeding in flowers. Species in the four extant genera of this family exhibit striking disjunct distributions. Cranothrips is known mainly from Australia with one species from South Africa (Pereyra & Mound, 2011); Dorythrips is known from Australia and western South America; Ankothrips is from western USA, Europe and South Africa; Melanthrips is mainly from Europe with a few species in Africa, India and north America.
Click to see a list of the 70 species.
Click to see a list of the 10 Fossil taxa.
References
Genera included
Ankothrips Crawford, 1909
† Archankothrips Priesner, 1924
Cranothrips Bagnall, 1915
Dorythrips Hood, 1931
† Eocranothrips Bagnall, 1927
Melanthrips Haliday, 1836
