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 Podothrips Hood Type species: Podothrips semi fl avus Hood. This genus includes 30 species from various parts of the world, but the majority of them were described from the Old World ( Mound and Minaei 2007 ). Members of Podothrips have prosternal basantra unusually longer than wide, enlarged fore femora, and fore tarsi bearing a tooth (sometimes also a tooth at the apex of the fore tibia) ( Ritchie 1975 ). This genus might be related to Haplothrips , and most species seem to be predaceous on scale insects in Poaceae . Only three Podothrips species are reported from Central and South America, two originally described from Brazil and one from Puerto Rico ( Table 1 ). Mound and Marullo (1996) provided a key to these Neotropical species.