Androthrips Karny, 1911

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 : 1396

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1113316
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5206207
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scientific name	Androthrips Karny
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Type species: Mesothrips melastomae Zimmermann.

This genus comprises 12 Asian species (ThripsWiki 2015). These have three sense cones on antennal segment III and four on IV, and have a very characteristic swollen fore femur, with the inner margin bearing a basal tubercle and a row of minute tubercles. These are predatory thrips on gall-living insects, including other thrips species ( Mound and Minaei 2007). The Asian Androthrips ramachandrai Karny , is the only species recorded from the New World and is now widespread in the Americas. Larvae and adults of this thrips feed on the immature stages of the gall-inducer Gynaikothrips uzeli (Zimmermann) inside the leaf-galls on Ficus benjamina ( Cavalleri et al. 2011; Melo et al. 2013).

References

Cavalleri A, Lima MGA, Melo FS, Mendonca Jr. MS. 2011. New records of thrips (Thysanoptera) species in Brazil. Neotrop Entomol. 40: 628 - 630.

Melo FS, Cavalleri A, Mendonca Jr MS. 2013. Predation of Gynaikothrips uzeli (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) by Androthrips ramachandrai (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Fla Entomol. 96: 859 - 863.

Mound LA, Minaei K. 2007. Australian thrips of the Haplothrips lineage (Insecta: Thysanoptera). J Nat Hist. 41: 2919 - 2978.