Stephanothrips Trybom

Stephanothrips Trybom, 1913: 42 . Type species Stephanothrips buffai Trybom, 1913, by monotypy.

This is the largest urothripine genus, with 30 named species in the world (ThripsWiki 2017). Nearly 70% of these species are known from Asia, particularly Southeast Asia (Kudô 1978, 1989; Okajima 1976, 1982, 1989, 1994, 2006; Okajima & Urushihara 1995), although some are from southern USA, and one from South Africa. With the new species described here, five species of Stephanothrips are now known from China (Okajima 1976; Wang & Tong 2007; Dang & Qiao 2014).