Habrothrips Ananthakrishnan

The only species in this Urothripine genus, H. curiosus (Fig. 22), was described from India. It lives in leaf-litter and on dead twigs, and has been studied from southeast Asia as well as northern Australia (Mound 1972a).

Diagnosis. Body tuberculate-reticulate; head with prominent preocular prolongation; maxillary stylets wide apart, retracted to postocular setae; antennae 8-segmented, segment III with 2 sensoria, IV with 4 sensoria; pronotum with only epimeral setae well-developed, no notopleural sutures; basantra absent; mesopraesternum complete, slender; no sternopleural sutures; fore tarsi without tooth; fore wings, if present, narrow, no duplicated cilia; pelta broad; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of broad wing-retaining setae in macropterae; tergite IX more than twice as long as VIII; tube slender, about twice as long as head, anal setae more than twice as long as tube; male without pore plates.