Abstract
The genus Taeniothrips, one of the oldest generic names in the Thysanoptera, was established by Amyot & Serville (1843) for four species described by Haliday (1836) in the genus Thrips: primulae, decora, dispar and brevicornis. The type species of Taeniothrips was designated by Karny (1907: 45) as primulae. Ahlberg (1918) recognised that primulae and picipes Zetterstedt represent the same species, but mistakenly considered that picipes dated from 1840 not 1828. Of the four species listed originally by Amyot & Serville, primulae and decora are now considered synonyms of picipes, and brevicornis is a synonym of dispar in the genus Baliothrips (see ThripsWiki 2014). The genus Taeniothrips is found in Holarctic region, Southeast Asia and India, but of the 45 listed species 21 are fossils (Mound et al. 2012). In India, Taeniothrips is known by only three species, T. major Bagnall, T. orchidi Ananthakrishnan and T. tigris Bhatti (Bhatti 1990, 1995).