Merothrips

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Thysanoptera
Subordo: Terebrantia

Familia:Merothripidae
Genus: Merothrips
Synonyms (3): Amerothrips – Sakimurathrips – Tardothrips

Species (14): M. brevisetis – M. brunneus – M. floridensis – M. fusciceps – M. indicus – M. laevis – M. mirus – M. morgani – M. nigricornis – M. ottonis – M. productus – M. tympanis – M. williamsi – M. yii

In synonymy (9): M. capensis – M. cognatus – M. genuinus – M. hawaiiensis – M. lacotae – M. plaumanni – M. priesneri – M. xylophilus – M. zondagi

Check (1): M. fritschi
Name

Merothrips Hood, 1912: 132

Type species: Merothrips morgani Hood, 1912, by monotypy

References

Hood, J.D. 1912: Descriptions of new North American Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 14: 129–160, plates IV-VIII. BHL Reference page.
Mound, L.A.; O'Neill, K. 1974: Taxonomy of the Merothripidae, with ecological and phylogenetic considerations (Thysanoptera). Journal of natural history 8(5): 481–509. DOI: 10.1080/00222937400770411 Reference page.
Ng, Y.F. & Mound, L.A. 2018. Merothripidae from Malaysia: Merothrips with one new species and two new species records. Zootaxa 4407(3): 447–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.12 Open access. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Merothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Merothripidae. There are about 19 described species in Merothrips.[1][2][3]
Species

These 19 species belong to the genus Merothrips:

Merothrips brevisetis Hood
Merothrips brunneus Ward, 1969
Merothrips cognatus Hood
Merothrips dietrichi Schliephake
Merothrips floridensis Watson, 1927
Merothrips fusciceps Hood & Williams, 1915
Merothrips indicus Bhatti & Ananthakrishnan, 1975
Merothrips laevis Hood, 1938
Merothrips mirus Crawford
Merothrips morgani Hood, 1912
Merothrips nigricornis Hood
Merothrips plaumanni Crawford
Merothrips productus Hood, 1938
Merothrips tympanis Hood
Merothrips williamsi Priesner, 1921
Merothrips yii Ng & Mound, 2018
Merothrips zondagi Ward, 1969
† Merothrips balticus Ulitzka, 2015
† Merothrips fritschi Priesner, 1924

References

"Merothrips Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Merothrips". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Merothrips genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

Hoddle, M.S.; Mound, L.A.; Paris, D.L. (2012). "Thrips of California". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Jacot-Guillarmod, C. F. (1970). "Catalogue of the Thysanoptera of the world (Pt. 1)". Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums (Natural History). 7: 1–8.
Mound, L. A.; Kibby, G. (1998). Thysanoptera: An Identification Guide. CABI. ISBN 978-0851992112.
Cavalleri, Adriano; Masumoto, Masami; Minaei, Kambiz; Mound, Laurence; et al. (2018). "ThripsWiki - providing information on the World's thrips". Retrieved 2019-07-02.