Genera of fungivorous Phlaeothripinae (Thysanoptera) from dead branches and leaf-litter in Australia
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Dang, Li-Hong
Author
Tree, Desley J.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3681
3
201
224
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.1
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1175-5326
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Ecacanthothrips
Bagnall
This genus comprises 11 species from southeast Asia, and appears to represent a particular subgroup of
Hoplandrothrips
with multiple, large, sensoria on the third antennal segment (
Fig. 21
). These thrips live on dead branches, and
E. tibialis
, a highly variable species widespread in the Old World tropics, has been found in Queensland.
FIGURES 19–24
.
Phlaeothripinae
genera.
(19)
Baenothrips moundi
, tergites IX–X;
(20)
Senithrips psomus
, antenna;
(21)
Ecacanthothrips tibialis
, small male;
(22)
Habrothrips curious
;
(23)
Hoplothrips orientalis
small male;
(24)
Horistothrips australis
;
(25)
Holothrips oceanicus
.
Diagnosis.
Head as long as wide or much longer, cheeks usually with stout setae; postocular setae long; stylets long and retracted to eyes, close together medially; antennae 8-segmented, III usually with at least 6 stout sensoria, IV with 4; pronotum usually with 5 pairs of major setae; notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopraesternum usually eroded medially and divided into three; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsi present in both sexes, fore femur usually with pair of apical tubercles in male; fore femur sometimes with median tooth at inner margin in both sexes; fore wings weakly constricted medially, with duplicated cilia; pelta triangular or bellshaped; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae, often with several accessory wing-retaining setae; tube shorter than head, anal setae a little shorter than tube; male sternite VIII without pore plates.