Chaetanaphothrips Priesner

Mirab-balou, Majid, Minaei, Kambiz & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2013, An illustrated key to the genera of Thripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Iran, ZooKeys 317, pp. 27-52 : 32

Chaetanaphothrips Priesner

Remarks.

This is an Asian leaf-living genus ( Pitkin 1977), and now includes 20 species ( ThripsWiki 2013). Several of these are widespread around the world, and are considered pests on their host plants. Chaetanaphothrips theiperdus is a pest of tea in Java and Peninsular Malaysia; Chaetanaphothrips leeuweni (Karny), Chaetanaphothrips orchidii (Moulton) and Chaetanaphothrips signipennis (Bagnall) are pests of Bananas in some tropical countries ( Kudô 1985, Mound and Marullo 1996); Chaetanaphothrips orchidii is a most widely distributed polyphagous species and is also recorded as a pest of some ornamental plants in greenhouses in Europe and North America ( Kudô 1985, Mound and Ng 2009). Species of this genus may be distinguished from other Thripinae by the presence of modified spiracles on abdominal tergite VIII. This genus was reported from Iran by Esmaili (1983), based on an undetermined species ( Chaetanaphothrips sp.) noted as pest of citrus fruits in Iran.