Idolothrips

Genus information

Idolothrips Haliday in Walker, 1852: 1096. Type species Idolothrips marginatus Haliday (=spectrum), by subsequent designation Bagnall, 1908: 356.

Acanthinothrips Bagnall, 1908: 207. Type species Idolothrips spectrum Haliday, by monotypy.

Biology and Distribution

Three species are recognised in this genus, from Australia.

References

Haliday AH (1852) Order III Physapoda. pp. 1094–1118 in Walker F List of the Homopterous insects in the British Museum Part IV. London: British Museum.

Bagnall RS (1908) On some new genera and species of Thysanoptera. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland 3: 183–217.

Species

Idolothrips dissimilis Girault, 1927

Idolothrips spectrum Haliday, 1852

Idolothrips yashiroi Ishida, 1932