Megalothrips andrei Mound & Palmer, 1983

Okajima, Shûji & Masumoto, Masami, 2025, Two idolothripine genera, Bactrothrips and Megalothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), from Asia between India and Taiwan, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5696 (4), pp. 491-516 : 510

Megalothrips andrei Mound & Palmer

Megalothrips andrei Mound & Palmer, 1983: 78 .

M. andrei was described from Peninsular Malaysia based on 2 females and 1 male. Unfortunately, the specimens from Peninsular Malaysia including the type series have not been available in this study. The text figure (see Fig. 318 in Mound & Palmer 1983) shows that the notopleural suture is vestigial that means both noto-epimeral suture and noto-episternal suture are almost completely lost (cf. Fig. 102 ). The anterior line in the pleural area of the figure in Mound and Palmer (1983) is probably not the noto-episternal suture, but it is probably the pleural suture (= the suture between episternum and epimeron), because of the relative position of the midlateral pronotal setae which is situated far from this suture. This condition of the suture is very similar to that of M. curvidens ( Fig. 102 ; see Fig. 32C in Okajima, 2006).

Figures

FIGURES 94–102. Megalothrips species. M. sulawesicus sp. nov. 94–101: (94) head and prothorax, female; (95) antenna, female; (96) prosternum, female; (97) prothorax, female; (98) pelta, female; (99) tergites III–IV, female; (100) abdominal segment VI and VII, male; (101) tube, female. M. curvidens, female: (102) prothorax, female.

FIGURES 27–43. Bactrothrips honoris. Hind tibia, female 27–33: (27–29) Taiwan; (30) Java; (31) Peninsular Malaysia; (32) Mindanao Is., the Philippines; (33) S. Sulawesi. Mid tibia, female 34–38: (34) Taiwan; (35) Java; (36) Peninsular Malaysia; (37) Mindanao Is., the Philippines; (38) S. Sulawesi. (39) Abdominal segments VI and VII, female (arrows indicate ‘faded windows’), female from Java. Male subgenital plate 40–41: (40) Taiwan; (41) Java. Female Bournier’s Apparatus 42–43: (42) Java; (43) Peninsular Malaysia.