Hyidiothrips Hood

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 : 43

Hyidiothrips Hood

( Fig. 65 )

Hyidiothrips Hood, 1938: 414 . Type species: Hyidiothrips atomarius Hood , by monotypy.

This genus of 10 minute species is known from various sites around the tropics, with the species usually taken from leaf-litter. Okajima (1995a) described one species from west Malaysia and another from southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, and three species are recorded from Southern China.

Diagnosis: Body minute, laterally flattened ( Fig. 65 ); head a little longer than wide, distinctly produced in front of eyes; eyes normal, micropterae with number of ommatidia greatly reduced; postocular setae welldeveloped; stylets usually short, retracted into mouth-cone; antennae 7-segmented, III and IV fused to one enlarged segment bearing 2 slender apical sensoria; pronotum with 4 pairs of well-developed setae, am displaced posterolaterally, ml reduced, aa, epim and pa usually with apices expanded and asymmetric, notopleural sutures incomplete; basantra present; mesopresternum absent; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth absent in both sexes; fore wings weak, without duplicated cilia; pelta usually divided into several plates; tergites II–VII with 1 pair of wing-retaining setae; tube shorter than head, anal setae longer than tube.

Figures

FIGURES 61–65. Phlaeothrips-lineage. Heads 61–64: (61) Holothrips; (62) Hoplothrips; (63) Hoplandrothrips hylaius, small male; (64) Hoplandrothrips hylaius, large male. (65) Hyidiothrips brunneus, female.