Propesolomonthrips 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 : 68

Propesolomonthrips Reyes

( Figs 84–86 )

Propesolomonthrips Reyes, 1994: 473 . Type species: Propesolomonthrips mindorensis Reyes , by monotypy.

This genus is known only from a single male collected in the Philippines. This exhibits the unusual character state of tergite VIII bearing two pairs of wing-retaining setae ( Fig. 86 ), a condition that is found otherwise only in species of Solomonthrips and Phylladothrips . The species in all three genera are presumably fungus-feeding in leaf-litter or on dead leaves and branches.

Diagnosis: Head about as long as wide ( Fig. 84 ); eyes normal, postocular setae well-developed, capitate; stylets short, not retracted into head capsule, V-shaped; antennae 8-segmented, III with 2 sensoria, IV with 3; pronotum with 5 pairs of capitate setae, notopleural sutures complete; basantra present; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth absent in male; fore wings weakly constricted medially, with duplicated cilia; pelta hat-shaped; tergites II–VIII 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.

Figures

FIGURES 84–91. Phlaeothrips-lineage. Propesolomonthrips mindorensis 84–86: (84) Head & pronotum; (85) meso- & metanotum; (86) tergites VII–X. (87) Azaleothrips lepidus, head, pronotum & foreleg; (88) Pygmaeothrips angusticeps, antenna; (89) Rosingothrips ommatus, antenna; (90) Stephanothrips yaeyamensis, antenna; (91) Preeriella armigera, female.