Liophloeothrips Priesner

Minaei, Kambiz & Mound, Laurence, 2014, The Liothrips-lineage of thrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) from Iran with the first record of micropterous morph of a Liothrips species, Zootaxa 3889 (1), pp. 107-117 : 109

Liophloeothrips Priesner

Liophloeothrips Priesner, 1919: 138 . Type species Liophloeothrips glaber Priesner, 1919 , by monotypy.

There are 16 species listed in Liophloeothrips (ThripsWiki 2014) , of which all but three are from India, and a key to those 13 is provided by Tyagi and Kumar (2011). The 13 species from India are all considered to be leaf-feeding, but the biology of the remaining three species, all from Europe, is unknown. L. glaber is known from a single male taken in Albania (in SMF), although one female (in BMNH) is here identified as this species and bears the following data “Crimea, Alushta, viii.1927, Quercus, Oscar John Coll. ”. Kobro (2011) lists glaber from Finland, but the only available specimen from that country, labeled as glaber by zur Strassen, is a teneral female macroptera. This specimen is too weakly pigmented to be certain of its identity, but it probably represents the previously unknown macropterous form of hungaricus . The latter species was described from Hungary, is known from Finland, and an unsubstantiated record from Iran is mentioned below. The third species, pulchrisetis Bournier, is known only from a single female from France ( Bournier1969) . Dyadechko (1977: 268) lists Liophloeothrips as a synonym of Rhynchothrips Hood , and also records both glaber and hungaricus from USSR, but it is not possible to substantiate these records.