Rhamphothrips Karny

Tyagi, Kaomud & Kumar, Vikas, 2013, The genus Rhamphothrips in India (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3745 (4), pp. 491-495 : 491

Rhamphothrips Karny

Rhamphothrips Karny 1913: 123 . Type species Rhynchothrips tenuirostris Karny 1912 . Rhamphothrips Karny ; Bhatti (1978); Mound & Tree (2011).

This genus can be distinguished from other genera in the family Thripidae by the following features: small head and remarkably long mouthcone [Mound & Tree (2011) suggest that the African species may have a shorter mouthcone]; median anteriorly directed fernal process on the prosternum; female sternite VIII with two pairs of median setae close together and distant from the third pair; hypomere of male genitalia typically not dilated subapically.