Podothrips Hood, 1913

Cavalleri, Adriano, Lindner, Mariana F. & Mendonça Jr, Milton de S., 2016, New Neotropical Haplothripini (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) with a key to Central and South American genera, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 1389-1410 : 1408

Podothrips Hood

Type species: Podothrips semi fl avus Hood.

This genus includes 30 species from various parts of the world, but the majority of them were described from the Old World ( Mound and Minaei 2007). Members of Podothrips have prosternal basantra unusually longer than wide, enlarged fore femora, and fore tarsi bearing a tooth (sometimes also a tooth at the apex of the fore tibia) ( Ritchie 1975). This genus might be related to Haplothrips , and most species seem to be predaceous on scale insects in Poaceae . Only three Podothrips species are reported from Central and South America, two originally described from Brazil and one from Puerto Rico ( Table 1). Mound and Marullo (1996) provided a key to these Neotropical species.