Mycterothrips acaciae Priesner

Okajima, Masami Masumoto And Shûji, 2006, A revision of and key to the world species of Mycterothrips Trybom (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 1261 (1261), pp. 1-90 : 18

Mycterothrips acaciae Priesner

( Figs. 1–9)

Mycterothrips acaciae Priesner, 1932: 5–6

Diagnosis. Head distinctly shorter than pronotum; mouth­cone very elongate and slender reaching mesosternum, with slender maxillary palpi. Postocular setae all subequal in length, I to III narrowly spaced and situated at postero­inner angle of compound eyes, distance between III and IV wide ( Fig. 1). Antennal segment II without microtrichial rows. Mesonotum without CPS anteromedially; median pair of setae situated far from posterior margin ( Fig. 4). Metascutum weakly and irregularly reticulated medially; median pair of setae situated near anterior margin ( Fig. 4). Abdominal terga II to VIII with numerous ciliate microtrichia on lines of sculpture, smooth medially ( Figs. 5, 7); tergum II with three lateral marginal setae ( Fig. 5); terga VII to VIII with B4 setae minute ( Figs. 6–7); tergum IX without CPS, with a few microtrichia at posterior margin ( Fig. 7); tergum X with weak slit at apex ( Fig. 7); sterna II to VII with 2–15 discal setae arranged almost in a transverse line ( Fig. 9). In male, mouth­cone and maxillary palpi shorter than in female; antennae 7­ segmented, segment VI slightly longer than that of female, with numerous setae and without microtrichia ( Figs. 2–3); abdominal tergum IX with posterior pair of CPS between B1 and B2 setae, SB1 setae absent; sterna II to VIII with discal setae fewer than in female ( Fig. 8); hypomere expanded at apex.

Specimens examined. Egypt: Paratype, 1 female, Amrieh , Acacia nilotica (Flowers) 26­vii­1931, H. Priesner ( SMF) . Paratype, 1 male, Cairo, Cynodont panicum (=? Cynodon ), 27­iii­1936, H. Priesner. ( SMF) . Yemen: 1 female, Hochland, Haddah , 2500 m, Acacia seyal , 4­vi­1988, R . zur Strassen ( SMF) . India: 2 females and 1 male, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow , Acacia arabica leaves, 10­vii­1999, J. S. Bhatti ( BHC) .