Baenothrips Crawford

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 : 24

Baenothrips Crawford

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Baenothrips Crawford, 1948: 39 . Type species: Baenothrips guatemalensis Crawford , by monotypy.

This urothripine genus is widespread around the world, with fungus-feeding species often living at ground level amongst the base of grasses or on dead branches. It includes 11 species, of which three are recorded from Southern China, and one from west Malaysia.

Diagnosis: Body tuberculate-reticulate; head anterior margin with 3 pairs of prominent setae, compound eyes reduced to 10–15 facets; stylets retracted to eyes, 1/3 of head width apart; antennae 8-segmented, III with no sensorium, IV with 2 sensoria; pronotum with only epim setae well-developed, notopleural sutures reduced; basantra reduced to 2 small lateral triangles; mesopresternum slender, transverse; metathoracic epimera enlarged and tuberculate, no sternopleural sutures; fore tarsi without tooth; fore wings, if present, narrow, no duplicated cilia; pelta transverse; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of broad wing-retaining setae in macropterae; tergite IX three times as long as VIII ( Fig. 25 ); tube long and slender with apex slightly widened; anal setae more than twice as long as tube; 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.