Rosingothrips Reyes

Dang, Li-Hong, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Conspectus of the Phlaeothripinae genera from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 3807 (1), pp. 1-82 : 69-70

Rosingothrips Reyes

Rosingothrips Reyes, 1994: 481 . Type species: Rosingothrips ommatus Reyes , by monotypy.

The only species in this genus is another member of the Liothrips- lineage with the posterior ommatidia of the compound eyes enlarged as in Praeciputhrips . It was described from five females and two males collected on the leaves of an unkown vine in the Philippines. The original description stated incorrectly that there are four sensoria on antennal segment IV, whereas there are actually only three sensoria on this segment on both the holotype female and paratype male (in ANIC) .

Diagnosis: Head longer than wide; eyes normal, but with enlarged postero-lateral ommatidia, postocular setae well-developed; stylets retracted almost to postocular setae, about one fifth of head width apart medially; antennae 8-segmented, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 3, segment VIII long and slender; pronotum with 4 pairs of developed setae, am small, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth absent in both sexes; fore wings parallel-sided, with duplicated cilia; pelta triangular; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tube with straight sides, shorter than head, anal setae shorter than tube; male sternite VIII without pore plate.