Hyidiothripini

Head and pronotum of Preeriella minutus, from Stannard (1957).

Belongs within: Phlaeothripidae.

The Hyidiothripini is a group of exceptionally small, laterally compressed thrips found in leaf litter.

Characters (from Mound & Marullo 1996): Abdominal pelta with one median slender sclerite and two lateral transverse sclerites; minute pale, frail species with long pronotal setae and antennal segments III and IV more or less fused.

<==Hyidiothripini MM96
    |--Crinitothrips MM96
    |--Machadonia MM96
    |--Adamantothrips P60
    |--Smicrothrips Hood 1952 MM96
    |    `--*S. particula MM96
    |--Hyidiothrips Hood 1938 MM96
    |    |--*H. atomarius Hood 1938 MM96
    |    |--H. japonicus MM96
    |    |--H. nanellus Hood 1957 MM96
    |    `--H. tesselatus Hood 1952 MM96
    `--Preeriella Hood 1939 MM96
         |--*P. minutus (Watson 1937) [=Chirothripoides minutus] MM96
         |--P. fumosa Hood 1957 MM96
         |--P. macilenta Hood 1957 MM96
         |--P. marginata Hood 1957 MM96
         |--P. microsoma Johansen 1982 MM96
         `--P. totonaca Johansen 1986 MM(6

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[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.

[P60] Priesner, H. 1960. Das System der Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 13: 283-296.

Stannard, L. J., Jr. 1957. The phylogeny and classification of the North American genera of the suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Illinois Biological Monographs 25: 1-200.