Scirtothrips combreti Faure

Scirtothrips combreti Faure, 1929: 8

Described from 24 females and 11 males collected in Transvaal, this species remains known only from these original specimens taken from five species of Combretum as well as a few other plants. The species is unusual because the fore wings are weakly bicoloured, and in females the sternal microtrichial fields extend just mesad of the median marginal setal pair S1.

Diagnosis. Body mainly yellow, terga and sterna with diffuse median dark area and antecostal ridges dark; antennal segments III–VIII mainly dark; fore wings with distal half pale, median area weakly shaded but base paler and clavus uniformly dark. Ocellar setae III on line of tangent between anterior margins of posterior ocelli; pronotum closely striate, posteromarginal setae no more than 0.3 times as long as pronotum, S2 scarcely longer than S1; fore wing first vein with widely spaced setae, second vein with 3–4 setae, cilia wavy; metanotum with elongate reticulation; tergum VIII with microtrichia anteromedially, IX with no microtrichia posteromedially; sterna with microtrichia extending just mesad of marginal setal pair S1.