Amalothrips Ananthakrishnan, 1967

Li, Yajin, Liu, Zhuocheng & Zhang, Hongrui, 2021, Rhamphothrips genus-group in China, with description of two new species and two new records (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 5039 (3), pp. 425-432 : 425

Amalothrips Ananthakrishnan

The grass-feeding thrips Amalothrips comprises two Asian species, flaccidus and noorazlani . This is the first record of the genus from China, and includes one new species and one new record. Members of Amalothrips have been distinguished from other genera by having a simple sense cone on antennal segments III and IV, and the head strongly projecting in front of the eyes in both sexes ( Ng 2015). However, a third species is described here with the sense cone forked on antennal segments III–IV. This difference in sense cones among species is surprising, but such variation is also known in other genera that are associated with Poaceae , including Chirothrips and Limothrips (see Mound et al. 2018).