Trachynotothrips Masumoto & Okajima, 2005

Li, Yajin, Li, Zhengyue & Zhang, Hongrui, 2019, Trichromothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species and ten new records, Zootaxa 4544 (1), pp. 79-92 : 80

Trachynotothrips Masumoto & Okajima

This genus was erected for two Southeast Asian species together with a key to distinguish them, and with T. striatus as type species. The species have a strongly enlarged metathoracic furca ( Fig. 34 ), similar to that of Dendrothripinae and some members of Panchaetothripinae. This structure may be associated with thrips jumping activity rather than indicating any phylogenetic relationship ( Masumoto & Okajima 2005). Two Trachynotothrips species are here recorded from China for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 31–39. Head and pronotum of Trichromothrips genus-group species. (31) Laplothrips bicolor. (32) Yoshinothrips pasekamui. (33) Octothrips bhatti. (34) Trachynotothrips striatus. (35) Trichromothrips falcus. (36) T. elegans. (37) T. crispator. (38) T. trifasciatus. (39) T. indicus.