Parascirtothrips Masumoto & Okajima, 2007

The single described species in this genus remains known only from Honshu, Japan, where it was recorded from at least five different genera of plants, most of which are members of the Fagales or even Fagaceae . The species is unusual within the Scirtothrips genus-group in having the pronotal sculpture weak with widely spaced lines, the mesonotal submedian setae arising close to the posterior margin, the tergites with few rows of microtrichia, and the antennae are 7-segmented.