Litotetothrips Priesner

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 : 49

Litotetothrips Priesner

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Litotetothrips Priesner, 1929a: 449 . Type species: Litotetothrips cinnamomi Priesner (junior synonym of Gynaikothrips rotundus Moulton ), by monotypy.

This genus is a member of the Liothrips- lineage, and the 11 listed species are all leaf-feeders in the tropics and subtropics of eastern Asia, with one species from New Guinea. Kudo (1994) described five species from Peninsular Malaysia, and three species are reported from China, although none are listed from Indonesia.

Diagnosis: Head about as long as wide, constricted at base ( Fig. 71 ); eyes normal, postocular setae welldeveloped; stylets retracted to postocular setae, wide apart, V-shaped; antennae 8-segmented, VIII as long as or a little longer than VII, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 2 or 3; pronotum with 3 pairs of developed setae, am and aa reduced, notopleural sutures incomplete; basantra absent; mesopresternum transverse, sometimes reduced; sternopleural sutures usually absent, sometimes present; fore tarsal tooth absent in both sexes; fore wings parallelsided, with or without duplicated cilia; pelta usually hat-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 71–75. Phlaeothripinae genera. Heads 71–73: (71) Litotetothrips sp.; (72) Macrophthalmothrips flavafemora; (73) Psalidothrips sp. Plectrothrips australis 74–75: (74) Head & pronotum; (75) Metanotum & tergites I–III.