Polytrichothrips, Priesner, 1939

Eow, L. X., Mound, L. A. & Ng, Y. F., 2011, Genera of Spore-Feeding Thysanoptera from Southeast Asia (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), with a species checklist from Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 2928 (1), pp. 1-19 : 15

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2928.1.1

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scientific name

Polytrichothrips
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Polytrichothrips View in CoL

Two species are described in this genus, P. laticeps Bagnall from Sarawak, and P. geoffri Mound from northern Australia, although specimens of a further species have been studied from New Caledonia. These species have the maxillary stylets elongate, retracted to the level of the compound eyes and close together medially, and there is a pair of ommatidium-like structures ventro-laterally on the posterior fifth of the cheeks.