Macrothripina

Eow, L. X., Mound, L. A. & Ng, Y. F., 2011, Genera of Spore-Feeding Thysanoptera from Southeast Asia (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), with a species checklist from Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 2928 (1), pp. 1-19 : 14

Subtribe Macrothripina

All but one of the 13 genera in this subtribe are from the Old World tropics, mostly from the Asian and Pacific regions. In contrast to the other members of the Pygothripini , none of the species has the metathoracic sternopleural sutures developed.