Adurothrips Mound

The only known species in this Australian genus, A. atopus, is widespread in leaf litter in eastern Australia (Fig. 2). The genus is considered related to the long-tubed, Urothripine genera such as Baenothrips and Stephanothrips, despite the tube and anal setae being short.

Diagnosis. Apterous, body small; head reticulate dorsally, with tuberculate cheeks, stylets wide apart; compound eyes with less than 15 ommatidia; antennae 6-segmented, II asymmetric, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 2 sensoria; pronotum with no long setae, no notopleural sutures; basantra small, placed laterally, mesopraesternum degenerate; no sternopleural sutures; fore tarsi without tooth; pelta transverse, tripartite; tergite IX scarcely longer than VIII; tube shorter than head, anal setae shorter than tube; male sternite VIII without pore plate.