Mecynothrips

{{Short description|Genus of thrips}}

{{Taxobox

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Thysanoptera

| familia = Phlaeothripidae

| genus = Mecynothrips

| genus_authority = Bagnall, 1908

| type_species = Mecynothrips wallacei

| type_species_authority = Bagnall, 1908

}}

Mecynothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae,{{Cite web |title=Australian Faunal Directory: Mecynothrips |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Mecynothrips |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=biodiversity.org.au |language=en}}Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2019). [http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019 Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist]. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X first described by Richard Siddoway Bagnall in 1908.{{cite Q|Q111744187}} [356]. The type species is Mecynothrips wallacei {{small|Bagnall, 1908}}.

Two of the Australian species are found only in rainforests in northern Queensland (Mecynothrips acanthus, and Mecynothrips wallacei).{{Cite web |title=Lucid Key Factsheet - Mecynothrips |url=https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v4/thrips/tubulifera/key/key/australian_tubulifera/Media/Html/Entities/mecynothrips.htm |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=keys.lucidcentral.org}} but the third Australian species, M.hardyi lives on the dead leaves of Acacia harpophylla in arid parts of southern Queensland.