Helionothrips Bagnall

This genus currently includes 29 species (ThripsWiki 2020), and these are found widespread in the Old World Tropics. Only two species are recorded in the Neotropics: H. funebris from Ecuador and Costa Rica (Mound & Marullo 1996), and the widespread pest species H. errans . According to Mound & Marullo (1996), H. funebris is probably not congeneric with Helionothrips, the members of which have a prominent transverse ridge on the head, the metanotum with a strongly developed triangular area, and the tergal antecostal ridge usually forming a series of arches.