Bamboosiella Ananthakrishnan

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 : 25

Bamboosiella Ananthakrishnan

( Fig. 27 )

Bamboosiella Ananthakrishnan, 1957: 65 . Type species: Bamboosiella bicoloripes Ananthakrishnan , by monotypy.

Most of the 28 species listed in this genus are probably phytophagous, and they all seem to be associated with grasses. Five of these species are recorded from China, 13 from Thailand, four from Peninsular Malaysia, three from Indonesia, and one each from Borneo and Singapore, but cingulata Hood is known from several countries around the tropics.

Diagnosis: Head shape variable; eyes normal, postocular setae well-developed; stylets usually very short, restricted to mouth-cone, V-shaped ( Fig. 27 ); antennae 8-segmented, III with 1 or 2 sensoria, IV usually with 3, sometimes with 2 or 4; pronotum usually with 5 pairs of well-developed setae, sometimes am reduced, notopleural sutures complete, rarely incomplete; basantra absent, or weakly present; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth usually absent in both sexes, sometimes present; fore wings weakly constricted medially, usually with duplicated cilia; pelta bell-shaped; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tube with straight sides, shorter than head; male sternite VIII without pore plate.

Figures

FIGURES 21–27. Phlaeothripinae genera. Aleurodothrips sp. 21–22: (21) female; (22) male. Ventral view of thorax 23–24: (23) Apterygothrips viretum; (24) Asianthrips orientalis. (25) Baenothrips moundi, tergites III–X. Head & pronotum 26–27: (26) Bagnalliella sp.; (27) Bamboosiella cingulata.