Aeolothripidae

Cycadothrips chadwicki in cycad cone, photographed by Irene Terry.

Belongs within: Thysanoptera.

The Aeolothripidae include medium-sized, usually dark brown thrips, often with dark bands on the wings. Aeolothripids are predatory, or feed on pollen (Mound & Marullo 1996). The Australian genus Cycadothrips is noteworthy as including pollinators of the cycad genus Macrozamia.

Characters (from Mound & Marullo 1996): Medium-sized, usually dark brown and about 2.5 mm long. Antennae with nine segments; sensoria on segments III and IV linear, either along length of segments or transverse around apex (not forming a continuous band). Usually macropterous; forewings broad with apex rounded, two longitudinal and two cross veins, usually with one or two dark transverse or longitudinal bands.

<==Aeolothripidae [Palaeothripidae]
    |--+--Cycadothrips PL12
    |  |    |--C. albrechti PL12
    |  |    `--C. chadwicki PL12
    |  `--Dactulothrips GE05
    `--Cretothrips antiquus PL12

Aeolothripidae incertae sedis:
  Heolothrips YS01
  Mymarothrips garuda GE05, G01
  Geolothrips GE05
  Rhipidothrips MM96
  Euceratothrips MM96
  Allelothrips MM96
  Erythrothrips Moulton 1911 MM96
    |--*E. arizonae Moulton 1911 MM96
    |--E. diabolus (Priesner 1932) [=Aeolothrips diabolus] MM96
    `--E. durango Watson 1924 MM96
  Desmothrips AY04
    |--D. bagnalli Karny 1924 GM79 [incl. Orothrips unguttipennis Girault 1926 G26b, G26a]
    |--D. mendozai Girault 1932 G32
    |--D. miltoni Girault 1927 G27a
    `--D. uniguttus Girault 1927 G27b
  Stomatothrips Hood 1912 MM96
    |--*S. flavus Hood 1912 MM96
    |--S. angustipennis Hood 1949 MM96
    |--S. bahamondesi De Santis 1980 MM96
    |--S. brunneus Crawford 1940 MM96
    |--S. crawfordi Stannard 1968 MM96
    |--S. rotundus Hood 1949 MM96
    `--S. septenarius Hood 1925 MM96
  Franklinothrips Back 1912 [incl. Mitothrips] MM96
    |--*F. vespiformis Crawford 1909 [=Aeolothrips vespiformis] MM96
    |--F. atlas MM96
    |--F. caballeroi Johansen 1981 MM96
    |--F. fulgidus Hood 1949 MM96
    |--F. lineatus Hood 1949 MM96
    |--F. megalops MM96
    |--F. orizabensis Johansen 1974 MM96
    |--F. suzukii MM96
    |--F. tenuicornis Hood 1915 MM96
    `--F. variegatus Girault 1927 G27b
  Aeolothrips Haliday 1836 [incl. Coleothrips, Fabothrips Bhatti 1988] MM96
    |--*A. albicinctus Haliday 1836 MM96
    |--A. bicolor Hinds 1902 MM96
    |--A. duvali Moulton 1927 MM96
    |--A. fasciatipennis (n. d.) MM96
    |--A. fasciatus MM96
    |--A. hyalinipennis Girault 1930 [=Aelothrips hyalinipennis] G30
    |--A. major Bailey 1951 MM96
    |--A. mexicanus Priesner 1924 MM96
    |--A. microstriatus Hood 1935 MM96
    |--A. surcalifornianus Johansen 1989 MM96
    `--A. vittipennis [=*Fabothrips vittipennis] MM96

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[AY04] Austin, A. D., D. K. Yeates, G. Cassis, M. J. Fletcher, J. La Salle, J. F. Lawrence, P. B. McQuillan, L. A. Mound, D. J. Bickel, P. J. Gullan, D. F. Hales & G. S. Taylor. 2004. Insects 'Down Under' - diversity, endemism and evolution of the Australian insect fauna: examples from select orders. Australian Journal of Entomology 43 (3): 216-234.

[G26a] Girault, A. A. 1926a. New pests from Australia. II. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 200-202).

[G26b] Girault, A. A. 1926b. New pests from Australia. III. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 203-204).

[G27a] Girault, A. A. 1927a. Some new wild animals. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 208-210).

[G27b] Girault, A. A. 1927b. New Australian animals so far overlooked by outsiders. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 211-212).

[G30] Girault, A. A. 1930. New pests from Australia. VII. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 270-272).

[G32] Girault, A. A. 1932. New pests from Australia, X. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 286-291).

[GM79] Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 1-400.

[GE05] Grimaldi, D., & M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press: New York.

[G01] Gupta, S. K. 2001. A conspectus of natural enemies of phytophagous mites and mites as potential biocontrol agents of agricultural pests in India. In Acarology: Proceedings of the 10^th International Congress (R. B. Halliday, D. E. Walter, H. C. Proctor, R. A. Norton & M. J. Colloff, eds) pp. 484-497. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

[MM96] Mound, L. A., & R. Marullo. 1996. The thrips of Central and South America: an introduction (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1-487.

[PL12] Peñalver, E., C. C. Labandeira, E. Barrón, X. Delclòs, P. Nel, A. Nel, P. Tafforeau & C. Soriano. 2012. Thrips pollination of Mesozoic gymnosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 109 (22): 8623-8628.

[YS01] Yoshizawa, K., & T. Saigusa. 2001. Phylogenetic analysis of paraneopteran orders (Insecta: Neoptera) based on forewing base structure with comments on monophyly of Auchenorrhycha (Hemiptera). Systematic Entomology 26: 1-13.