New Neotropical Haplothripini (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) with a key to Central and South American genera Author Cavalleri, Adriano Author Lindner, Mariana F. Author Mendonça Jr, Milton de S. text Journal of Natural History 2016 2016-01-05 50 1389 1410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1113316 journal article 10.1080/00222933.2015.1113316 1464-5262 5206276 10E53C17-530E-4737-A7B9-D111956C7C22 Androthrips Karny Type species: Mesothrips melastomae Zimmermann. This genus comprises 12 Asian species (ThripsWiki 2015). These have three sense cones on antennal segment III and four on IV, and have a very characteristic swollen fore femur, with the inner margin bearing a basal tubercle and a row of minute tubercles. These are predatory thrips on gall-living insects, including other thrips species ( Mound and Minaei 2007 ). The Asian Androthrips ramachandrai Karny , is the only species recorded from the New World and is now widespread in the Americas. Larvae and adults of this thrips feed on the immature stages of the gall-inducer Gynaikothrips uzeli (Zimmermann) inside the leaf-galls on Ficus benjamina ( Cavalleri et al. 2011 ; Melo et al. 2013 ).