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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Leeuwenia
Karny
(
Figs 70
,
128
)
Leeuwenia
Karny, 1912b: 161
.
Type
species:
Leeuwenia gladiatrix
Karny
, by monotypy.
This is an Old World genus with most species in tropical Asia. These are leaf-feeding, sometimes gall-inducing, thrips and 27 species are listed in the area between
Mauritius
,
Japan
and northern
Australia
(
Mound 2004
). Seven species are recorded from
China
, four from
Indonesia
and two from the
Philippines
. Despite the elongate tube, this genus is probably related to
Gynaikothrips
in the
Liothrips-
lineage.
Diagnosis
: Head longer than wide (
Fig. 128
); eyes normal, postocular setae developed or reduced; stylets usually retracted to one third of head length, wide apart; antennae 8-segmented, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 2; pronotum usually with 4 pairs of developed setae, am reduced, notopleural sutures incomplete or complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth absent in both sexes; fore wings parallel-sided, without duplicated cilia; pelta trapezoidal or hat-shaped; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of fan-shaped wing-retaining setae; tube very long (
Fig. 70
), usually more than twice as long as head, with fine or robust setae on surface, anal setae short; male sternite VIII with or without pore plate.