Neohydatothrips John, 1929

Wang, Chin-Ling, 2007, Hydatothrips and Neohydatothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) of East and South Asia with three new species from Taiwan, Zootaxa 1575 (1), pp. 47-68 : 56-58

Genus Neohydatothrips John

Neohydatothrips John, 1929: 33 . Type species: Neohydatothrips latereostriatus John.

Elbuthrips Bhatti, 1973:410 . Type species: Elbuthrips latis Bhatti. syn. n.

Kazinothrips Bhatti, 1973: 432. Type species: Zonothrips luridus Ananthakrishnan, 1967 . syn. n. The genus Elbuthrips was erected for one new species based on a single male from India. It was distinguished from other genera in this group because the marginal setae on the abdominal sternites arise in front of the margin. Elbuthrips is here regarded as a synonym of Neohydatothrips .

Kazinothrips was erected for two species transferred from Zonothrips , Z. luridus Ananthakrishnan 1967 from India, and Z. osmundae (J. C. Crawford) from North America. Three more species K. bifurcisetosus Kudo , K. reticulatus Kudo from Japan and K. xestosternitus Han & Cui from China were included afterwards. As indicated by Bhatti (1973), Kazinothrips is distinguished from Neohydatothrips only by the 7-segmented antennae, and this difference seems more likely to have arisen among the species of Neohydatothrips than to represent a separate evolutionary lineage. Kazinothrips is therefore here considered a synonym of Neohydatothrips .

Neohydatothrips is morphologically similar to Hydatothrips , but the metasternum is not divided medially or divided only in the front part with a Y-shaped apodeme. Six species of Neohydatothrips are here recorded from Taiwan, gracilipes , medius , plynopygus , samayunkur , surrufus and tabulifer , of which surrufus is a new species, and gracilipes , plynopygus , samayunkur and tabulifer are new records for Taiwan..