Halmathrips Hood

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2016, Genera of the leaf-feeding Dendrothripinae of the world (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), with new species from Australia and Sulawesi, Indonesia, Zootaxa 4109 (5), pp. 569-582 : 578

Halmathrips Hood :

As indicated by the key to genera, the five described species listed in this genus, all from the Mexican and Caribbean area, also an undescribed species from Brazil, are similar in structure to those placed in Leucothrips . The generic classification of Neotropical dendrothripines remains unclear. Two species described from southern Brazil are listed in Pseudodendrothrips , but they are more closely related to Leucothrips and Halmathrips .