Conspectus of the Phlaeothripinae genera from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae)
Author
Dang, Li-Hong
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
laurence.mound@csiro.au
Author
Qiao, Ge-Xia
qiaogx@ioz.ac.cn
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-05-29
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Zelotothrips
Priesner
(
Fig. 121
)
Zelotothrips
Priesner, 1952: 200
.
Type
species:
Cryptothrips fuscipennis
Karny
, by monotypy.
The only species placed in this genus was described on both sexes from
Java
,
Indonesia
, taken in a gall on
Spatholobus
. It is a member of the
Liothrips
-lineage, but has long antennal sensoria, cheeks with stout setae and striate metanotal sculpture.
Diagnosis
: Head longer than wide, cheeks with numerous stout setae (
Fig. 121
); eyes normal, without enlarged ommatidia, postocular setae shorter than width of an eye, arising behind inner margin of eyes; stylets about onethird of head width apart, retracted half-way to postocular setae; antennae 8-segmented, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 3, sensoria long and slender; pronotum with 5 pairs of major setae developed, aa and am smaller, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum reduced to pair of lateral triangles; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth absent in female, present in male; fore femora of male swollen; metanotum closely striate medially; fore wings parallel-sided, with duplicated cilia; pelta triangular, slightly recessed into anterior margin of tergite II; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of sigmoid wing-retaining setae, tergite IX setae longer than tube; tube with straight sides, slightly shorter than head.