Gynaikothrips Zimmermann

Mound, Laurence A., 2008, Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre- 1930, Zootaxa 1714, pp. 41-60 : 55

Gynaikothrips Zimmermann

Gynaikothrips Zimmermann, 1900: 13 . Type species Mesothrips uzeli Zimmerman, 1900: 12 by monotypy

Currently there are 38 species listed under this generic name ( Mound, 2008), distributed between Asia, Australia and islands of the Western Pacific. However, most of these remain known only from their original descriptions, and their relationships to the type species of the genus are not clear. The genus is related to Liothrips Uzel , and together with some smaller genera from Asia they involve at least 300 species, all of which feed on leaves. These species all have one sensorium on the third antennal segment and three sensoria (or 3+1) on the fourth segment, and the prosternum lacks basantra, the anterior pair of sclerites. In contrast, the following Australian species is unique within this genus in having two sensoria on the third antennal segment.