Mycterothrips laticauda Trybom

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 : 63-65

Mycterothrips laticauda Trybom

( Figs. 95–97)

Mycterothrips laticauda Trybom, 1910: 158–159 .

Mycterothrips flavens Moulton, 1930 . [Synonymized by Bhatti, 1969: 378.]

Diagnosis: Body uniformly pale. Head distinctly shorter than pronotum; mouth­cone very elongate and slender reaching mesosternum, with slender maxillary palpi. Antennal segment II with some rows of microtrichia ( Fig. 95). Mesonotum without CPS anteromedially; median pair of setae near posterior margin. Metascutum with longitudinal anastomosing striae; median pair of setae near anterior margin. Abdominal terga with numerous ciliate microtrichia on lines of sculpture, smooth medially; tergum II with three lateral marginal setae; tergum VIII with B4 setae minute, B4 setae not minute on tergum VII ( Fig. 96); tergum IX without CPS and with a few microtrichia on posterior margin medially; sternum II to VII with some discal setae in addition to six setae on posterior margin, and 5–17 discal setae in arranged irregular line at middle of sterna ( Fig. 97). Male is not known.

Specimen examined. Ghana (Gold Coast): Holotype (female) of Mycterothrips flavens [Yegi, Acacia siberiana, II –27, A. N. J. Pomeroy] (CAS). South Africa: 1 female,

Transvaal , Groblersdal, Gossypium hirsutum , 15­xii­1981, R . zur Strassen ( SMF). Tchad: 1 female, Tikem, 7­ix­1958, cotton, A. Bournier ( TUA) .

Comments. One female studied here from Tchad had been identified as M. acaciae , but it was recognized as M. laticauda here by the above character states.