Neohydatothrips John

Mirab-Balou, Majid, Tong, Xiao-Li & Yang, Shu-Lan, 2013, Neohydatothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from China: new species and records, with a key to species, Zootaxa 3700 (1), pp. 185-194 : 186

Neohydatothrips John

Neohydatothrips John, 1929: 33 .

Generic diagnosis. Fore wing usually fully developed. Head wider than long ( Figs 1, 6 , 12 ); postoccipital apodeme siuated variously, marking off a wide, crescentic postocciput. Antennae 7- or 8-segmented ( Figs 3, 5 ); segment II without dorsal seta basad of campaniform sensillum, III and IV with forked sensoria. Mouth cone moderately long to short and conical. Pronotum with well-defined blotch area ( Figs 1, 6 ). Mesosternal spinula present. Metasternum with transverse line behind anterior margin, line medially with or without V-shaped emargination, usually with shallow emargination ( Figs 2 , 16 ). Metascutum and scutellum partially or complete divided. Fore wing first vein with setal row complete, second vein with 0, 1, or 2 setae distally. Abdominal tergites and sternites densely covered with ciliate microtrichia at least laterally; tergites II–VII with median setae not similarly placed and not of similar size, on II–IV closer together, with length increasing gradually from anterior to posterior tergites. Abdominal sternites III–VII usually with 3 pairs of setae, inserted marginally, those on VII of female usually positioned anterior of posterior margin.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. Neohydatothrips species from China. 1 – 4. N. concavus sp. n.: (1) Head and Pronotum, (2) Metasternum, (3) Antenna, (4) Mid and hind legs; 5 – 7. N. luteolipes sp. n.: (5) Antenna, (6) Head and Pronotum, (7) Abdomen, dorsal view.

FIGURES 12 – 17. Neohydatothrips flavicingulus sp. n. (12) Head, female; (13) Meso- and metanotum; (14) Fore wing, distal part; (15) Abdominal tergites VII – X; (16) Metasternum; (17) Pronotum.