Helionothrips Bagnall, 1932

Wang, Zhaohong, Mound, Laurence, Mao, Runqian & Tong, Xiaoli, 2022, Two new synonyms among Panchaetothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with three species newly recorded from China, Zootaxa 5190 (2), pp. 275-285 : 277

Genus Helionothrips Bagnall

There are 29 species listed in this Old World tropical genus (ThripsWiki 2022), and Mirab-balou et al. (2017) provided a key to 13 species recorded from China. However, one of these species is here placed into synonymy based on studying large amount of material, although without studying the type specimens. Members of Helionothrips have a distinctive arched antecostal ridge on the abdominal tergites, and the vertex of the head has a strong transverse ridge.