Scirtothrips Shull

Y. F. Ng & L. A. Mound, 2016, Two new species of Scirtothrips genus-group (Thripidae) of Northern Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 4088 (1), pp. 141-145 : 142

Scirtothrips Shull

Type species Scirtothrips ruthveni Shull , by monotypy.

This genus now includes 110 named species (ThripsWiki 2016), and the new species described below brings to seven the number of species of the genus recorded from Malaysia. In the key to these Malaysian species (Ng et al. 2014) the new species will run to lantanae, due to the unusual character states of the sternites fully covered with microtrichia, and the sternal posterior margins with a comb of microtrichia ( Fig. 13 ). However, these two species may be distinguished by the following key character states:

1. Fore wing with dark bands; median setae on metanotum situated far behind anterior margin; tergites II–IV with no more than three pairs of discal setae in microtrichia field; male tergite X without an enlarged pair of setae ....................................... lantanae -. Fore wing uniformly pale without dark bands ( Fig. 14 ); median setae on metanotum situated at anterior margin ( Fig. 10 ); tergites II–IV with more than three pairs of discal setae in microtrichia field ( Figs 11, 12 ); male tergite X with a pair of long, broad and striate setae ( Fig. 15 ) ........................................................................................................................................... temengorensis sp.n.

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 17. Scirtothrips temengorensis sp. n: (9) Head; (10) Pteronota; (11) Abdominal tergites I – IV; (12) Abdominal tergites VI – X; (13) Sternites IV – VII; (14) Fore wing; (15) Male abdominal segment X; (16) Meso- and metasterna; (17) Antennal segments I − VIII.