Azaleothrips 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 : 24

Azaleothrips Ananthakrishnan

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Azaleothrips Ananthakrishnan, 1964: 220 . Type species: Azaleothrips amabilis Ananthakrishnan , by monotypy.

Ten species are listed in this genus, all from the Old World tropics, between India and southern Japan, with three species recorded from Southern China (Guizhou and Taiwan). These thrips live on dead branches, and have delicate, complex sculpture, and broadly capitate major setae ( Fig. 87 ).

Diagnosis: Body with complex reticulation ( Fig. 87 ); head about as long as wide; postocular setae short, capitate, behind inner margins of eyes or absent; stylets long, retracted to eyes, close together medially; antennae 8- segmented, VIII more or less fused to VII; segment III with 3 sensoria, IV with 4; pronotum with 5 pairs of capitate setae, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum transverse, slender; sternopleural sutures long; female with small fore tarsal tooth; fore wings weakly constricted medially, with duplicated cilia; pelta broadly bell-shaped; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae, each posterior pair larger than anterior pair, tergal major setae broadly capitate; tube shorter than head, anal setae as long as tube; male sternite VIII with large 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.