Identification and host-plant associations of Australian Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) Author Mound, Laurence A. Author Tree, And Desley J. text Zootaxa 2009 1983 1 22 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.185353 37564c83-4c78-4d07-86aa-2fc42b24be1f 1175-5326 185353 Sericothrips Haliday Sericothrips Haliday, 1836 : 444 . Type-species Sericothrips staphylinus by monotypy. Sussericothrips Han, 1991 : 208 -211. Type-species Sussericothrips melilotus Han. syn.n. The nine species in this genus all have the abdominal tergites completely covered with microtrichia medially, a character state that correlates with each of these species being known to produce micropterous adults. The structural similarities between the species seem likely to be related more to this short-winged condition than to any phylogenetic relationship. In two of these species, S. kaszabi Pelikan and S. melilotus Han , tergal discal setae pair III are described as arising at the margin (or on an indentation of the margin), rather than on the tergal surface. This character state was used to distinguish the genus Sussericothrips that is here placed as a synonym.