Megalothrips, Uzel, 1895

Eow, L. X., Mound, L. A. & Ng, Y. F., 2011, Genera of Spore-Feeding Thysanoptera from Southeast Asia (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), with a species checklist from Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 2928 (1), pp. 1-19 : 16

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scientific name	Megalothrips
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There are seven species listed in this genus, and these seem to occur both in leaf litter and on dead branches. Five of the species are Holarctic (two European, three North American) and two are Asian. M. andrei Mound & Palmer is known only from a few specimens taken near Kuala Lumpur, but M. curvidens Okajima has been found widely in southern Japan from Honshu to the Ryukyu Islands. Okajima (2006) indicated that these two may represent local variants of a single species.

References

Okajima, S. (2006) The Suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). The Insects of Japan, 2, 1 - 720. The Entomological Society of Japan, Touka Shobo Co. Ltd., Fukuoka.