Strepterothrips Hood

The nine species in this genus are found in various parts of the tropics and subtropics, usually living on dead twigs (Fig. 41). Three species, S. apterus, S. orientalis and S. tuberculatus, are known from Australia, but at least one further undescribed species is represented in ANIC.

Diagnosis. Body strongly reticulate; head with eyes large dorsally, but with few ommatidia ventrally; postocular setae short, capitate; maxillary stylets retracted to eyes, close together medially; antennae 7-segmented, IV–VII with narrow pedicels; III with one sensorium, IV with 2 sensoria; pronotal major setae short, broadly expanded; basantra reduced or absent; mesopraesternum reduced to 2 small triangular lateral sclerites; sternopleural sutures short; fore tarsi without tooth in both sexes but fore tarsal hamus large in males; fore tibia in males with small apical tubercle; fore wings, when present, constricted medially, no duplicated cilia; pelta broad in apterae, hat-shaped in macropterae; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of broad wing-retaining setae in macropterae; S1 setae on tergite IX broadly expanded, S2 pointed; male without sternal pore plates.