Belongs within: Idolothripinae.
Actinothrips is a genus of Neotropical thrips fungus-feeding commonly found on dead leaves.
Characters (from Mound & Marullo 1996): Head with one pair of long, dark dorsal setae; preocellar setae short; pronotal anteromarginal and posteromarginal setae usually small; prosternal basantra absent; anapleural sutures short and incomplete; metathoracic sternopleural sutures absent; male with or without a fore tarsal tooth; abdominal segment I with lateral setae arising on lateral sclerites not associated with pelta; abdominal segment X (tube) long with numerous long lateral setae.
<==Actinothrips Bagnall 1909 [incl. Dasythrips Hood 1937]MM96 |--*A. longicornis Bagnall 1909MM96 |--A. apithanus Mound 1991MM96 |--A. bondari Hood 1928MM96 |--A. chiapensis (Johansen & Garcia 1976) [=Dasythrips chiapensis]MM96 |--A. femoralis Hood 1950MM96 |--A. fraterculus (Hood 1941) [=Dasythrips fraterculus]MM96 |--A. gargantua De Santis 1960MM96 |--A. monochaetus Hood 1935MM96 |--A. pedalis Hood 1949MM96 |--A. polychaetus Hood 1941MM96 |--A. regalis (Hood 1937) [=*Dasythrips regalis]MM96 |--A. retanae Mound 1991MM96 `--A. trichaetus Hood 1935MM96
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[MM96] Mound, L. A., & R. Marullo. 1996. The thrips of Central and South America: an introduction (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–487.