Peltariothrips, Mound & Palmer, 1983

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 : 15

Peltariothrips

Only one species is recognised in the genus, P. insolitus Mound & Palmer. Described from Singapore and the Philippines, this species has only seven antennal segments, the terminal two segments being fused, and the head bears a pair of ommatidium-like structures ventro-laterally on the posterior third of the cheeks.