Elaphrothrips, Buffa, 1909

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 : 17

Elaphrothrips

Currently, there are 140 species listed in this genus, with a further 39 species placed into synonymy. This high rate of synonymy reflects the considerable variation in body size among males, including allometry of several structures, together with the considerable differences in structure between the sexes. Moreover, examination of samples collected recently in Peninsular Malaysia indicates the possibility that one or two Asian species exist as clines between India and Indonesia. Species taxonomy within the genus remains unreliable, and requires further testing with molecular data, in collaboration with behavioural information on breeding and male/male competition, and ecological studies on resource partitioning in the habitat of hanging dead leaves where these insects are sometimes abundant. It seems likely that more synonymy remains to be detected ( Mound & Palmer, 1983). The following 18 species are recorded from various Asian countries: E. amoenus Priesner ( Vietnam) ; E. athletes Karny (Java) ; E. bakeri Karny (Phlippines, Java, Sumatra); E. coreanus Woo ( Korea) ; E. curvipes Priesner (Sumatra, India); E. denticollis Bagnall ( Indonesia, India); E. fulmeki Priesner (Sumatra) ; E. greeni Bagnall ( Sri Lanka, India); E. insignis Ananthakrishnan ( India) ; E. insulamris Priesner (Java) ; E. jacobsoni Priesner (Sumatra) ; E. malayensis Bagnall ( Indonesia, Sri Lanka); E. notabilis Ananthakrishnan ( India) ; E. philippinensis Okajima ( Philippines) ; E. procer Schmutz ( Sri Lanka, India); E. sensitivus Priesner (Sumatra) ; E. spiniceps Bagnall ( India, Java); E. sulawesiensis Okajima (Sulawesi) .