Azaleothrips Ananthakrishnan

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2015, Fungus-feeding Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae of the Idiothrips genus-group in Australia, with nine new species, Zootaxa 4034 (2), pp. 325-341 : 326

Azaleothrips Ananthakrishnan

Azaleothrips Ananthakrishnan, 1964: 220 . Type species: A. amabilis Ananthakrishnan , by monotypy.

This genus comprises 35 species, all from the tropical areas of eastern Asia, and a detailed and fully illustrated account of the genus has been made available by Okajima and Masumoto (2014). To this total of 35 should be added one new species from Australia described below, also a second species from Australia that was recently transferred to Azaleothrips ( Mound & Tree 2014) . In addition to the species considered below, a single female macroptera of an undescribed species has been studied from near Cairns with two sense cones on antennal segment III and three on IV, and with the third segment clear yellow. This species is similar in structure to simulans Okajima from Bali and Flores, Indonesia, but more specimens will be required before it can be considered further.