Haplothrips Amyot & Serville 1843

Haplothrips Amyot & Serville Haplothrips Amyot & Serville, 1843: 640. Type species Phloeothrips albipennis Burmeister 1836, by monotypy [= Thrips aculeatus Fabricius, 1803] Ananthakrishnana Bhatti, 1967: 22. Type species Ananthakrishnana indica Bhatti, 1967, by monotypy. Syn.n. Bhatti distinguished his new genus solely on the basis that the postocular setae were exceptionally short for a Haplothrips species. Subsequently, in synonymising his species indica with euphorbiae, Bhatti (1979) added as distinguishing states for Ananthakrishnana the sexual dimorphism of the maxillary stylet position, and the unusually reticulate sculpture on the vertex. Sexual dimorphism in the position of maxillary stylets is now known to occur among various unrelated species of Haplothrips (Dang & Mound 2023). Similarly, reduction in length of the postocular setae also occurs in different species of Haplothrips (Mound 2024), including Haplothrips leucanthemi that is widespread across the Holarctic in the flowers of Ox-eye Daisies, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum. The third character state, the presence of sculpture lines on the vertex, also occurs in other species of Haplothrips. As a result, there seems to be no justification for considering euphorbiae as representing a lineage independent from other Haplothrips species, and Ananthakrishnana is here placed into synonymy.