Ophthalmothrips Hood

Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2013, Review of the spore-feeding Idolothripinae from China (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), ZooKeys 345, pp. 1-28 : 22

Ophthalmothrips Hood

Remarks.

Of the 11 species included in this genus, four are recorded from China: Ophthalmothrips formosanus , Ophthalmothrips longiceps , Ophthalmothrips miscanthicola and Ophthalmothrips yunnanensis . This last species was based on one female and three males, and the description indicates that it is unusual in having the tergal wing-retaining setae small and straight in macropterae ( Cao et al. 2010). Ophthalmothrips formosanus is here newly recorded from mainland China, in Henan Province.

Diagnosis.

Head longer than broad, projecting in front of eyes; eyes distinctly prolonged ventrally; 1 pair of postoculars well developed, 1 pair of interocellar setae elongate; stylets short, V-shaped; antennae 8-segmented, segment III with 2 sensoria, IV with 2 or 4; pronotum usually with 4 pairs of major setae, anteromarginals short, notopleural sutures complete; basantra present; mesopraesternum developed; metathoracic sternopleural sutures absent; fore wings, if well developed, with duplicated cilia; fore tarsal tooth present or absent; pelta broadly triangular; abdominal tergites II–VII usually each with 2 pairs of sigmoid wing-retaining setae; tube smooth without lateral setae; anal setae various.

Key to Ophthalmothrips species from China