Hystricothripina

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 : 18

Subtribe Hystricothripina

This group includes 13 genera, of which eight are from the Neotropics, one from Florida and Mexico, one from Africa, and three from Southeast Asia. The species all have prominent setae laterally on the tube, the prosternal basantra are absent or at least weak. Only one pair of tergal wing retaining setae is present in most species, but the Asian species have multiple such setae ranging from three to five pairs.