Ethirothrips, Karny, 1925

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 : 14

Ethirothrips

The total of 37 species currently listed in this genus seems likely to be a considerable under estimate. Not only is Ethirothrips , with seven generic synonyms, interpreted as a complex genus encompassing a considerable range of structural diversity, but species recognition within this complex is particularly difficult due to lack of good series from which to interpret polymorphisms. All the species are associated with dead branches, but many are known from few specimens. The genus is widespread from India to Taiwan and into the Pacific, with many described, and undescribed, species in Australia. Two identified species are known from Peninsular Malaysia, E. stenomelas Walker is widely dispersed around the tropics, and E. tibialis Okajima , described from southern Japan (Ryukyu Islands), is known also from Sabah and Thailand ( Okajima, 2006).