Dichromothrips

Genus information

Dichromothrips Priesner, 1932: 110. Type species Dichromothrips orchidis Priesner, 1932, by monotypy.

Taeniothrips (Eugeneothrips) Hood, 1938: 11. Type species Taeniothrips (Eugeneothrips) priesneri Hood 1938, by monotypy. Synonymised by Pitkin & Mound, 1973: 416.

Orchaeothrips Bhatti, 2005: 26. Type species Dichromothrips nakahari Mound, 1976, by monotypy.

Biology and Distribution

Old World species, from Orchidaceae.

References

Priesner H (1932) Drei neue Thripiden. Stylops 1: 108–111.

Hood JD (1938) A new subgenus and species of Thysanoptera from the Cameroons. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 51: 11–14.

Pitkin BR & Mound LA (1973) A catalogue of West African Thysanoptera. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental de l'Afrique Noire 35: 407-449.

Bhatti JS (2005) Two new genera of Thripidae (Terebrantia) from India and Australia. Thrips 5(1): 26.

Species

Dichromothrips australiae Mound, 1976

Dichromothrips borneensis (Priesner, 1938)

Dichromothrips corbetti (Priesner, 1936)

Dichromothrips dendrobii Sakimura, 1955

Dichromothrips fenestratus zur Strassen, 1993

Dichromothrips indicus Mound, 1976

Dichromothrips major Okajima, 1999

Dichromothrips nakahari Mound, 1976

Dichromothrips nigeriae Mound, 1976

Dichromothrips nigricornis Okajima, 1999

Dichromothrips orchidis Priesner, 1932

Dichromothrips phalaenopsidis Sakimura, 1955

Dichromothrips priesneri (Hood, 1938)

Dichromothrips semicognitus Sakimura, 1955

Dichromothrips smithi (Zimmermann, 1900)

Dichromothrips spadix zur Strassen, 1993

Dichromothrips spiranthidis (Bagnall, 1926)

Dichromothrips viatorus Mound, 1976