Chirothripoides Bagnall

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 : 27

Chirothripoides Bagnall *

Chirothripoides Bagnall, 1915: 505 . Type species: Chirothripoides typicus Bagnall , by monotypy.

In reviewing the nine genera of the Plectrothrips genus-group, Okajima (1981) provided a key to the five species of the widely distributed genus Chirothripoides , of which two species are from Malaysia.

Diagnosis: Head longer than wide, distinctly produced in front of eyes; eyes large, postocular setae minute; stylets short, wide apart, U-shaped; antenna 8-segmented, campaniform sensorium situated on basal half of segment II, III–IV with sensoria stout; pronotum weakly sclerotized, major setae reduced, sometimes epimerals developed, notopleural suture complete; basantra reduced or absent, ferna separated from each other; mesopresternum?; fore tarsus usually with a small tooth, mid tibiae with a spur-like seta, hind tibiae with 2 spurlike setae; fore wing long and slender, with duplicated cilia; pelta?; posterior margin of sternite VIII with a series of long teeth; tergites without sigmoid wing-retaining setae?; tube shorter than head, anal setae shorter than tube.