Podothrips Hood, 1913

Tyagi, Kaomud, Singha, Devkant, Chakraborty, Rajasree, Pakrashi, Avas & Kumar, Vikas, 2020, A new species of Apelaunothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) from India with new synonym of Podothrips sasacola Kurosawa, Zootaxa 4751 (1), pp. 196-200 : 198

Podothrips Hood

There are 31 species listed in this genus (ThripsWiki 2020), with identification keys provided by Ritchie (1974) and Dang et al. (2019), and 10 species recorded from India ( Tyagi & Kumar 2016). Seshadri and Ananthakrishnan (1954) described Podothrips bicolor from grasses in India, and this species has been reported subsequently from China ( Dang et al. 2019). The number of sense cones on antennal segment IV has been used to distinguish species in this genus, but we have recognised variation in these structures amongst specimens from India, as discussed below.