Cephalothrips Uzel, 1895

Minaei, Kambiz & Mound, Laurence, 2014, The Liothrips-lineage of thrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) from Iran with the first record of micropterous morph of a Liothrips species, Zootaxa 3889 (1), pp. 107-117 : 108

Cephalothrips Uzel

Cephalothrips Uzel, 1895: 244 . Type species Phloeothrips monilicornis Reuter 1885 , by monotypy.

There are eight species listed in this genus from around the world (ThripsWiki 2014), but the relationships of the genus remain equivocal. Although listed by Dang et al. (2014) in the Phlaeothrips lineage, primarily because of the presence of only two sense cones on the fourth antennal segment, the genus can equally well be considered a member of the Liothrips -lineage that exhibits extreme wing-reduction and in which one sense cone has also been lost. The diagnostic characters of the genus are as follows: usually apterous; head longer than wide with short postocular setae; antennal segment III with 1 sense cone, IV with 2, VI broadly truncate at apex; pronotum with setae am, aa and ml minute, epim and pa short; prosternal basantra absent; mesopresternum reduced to lateral triangles; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsi with small tooth; tergites II–VII without sigmoid wing-retaining setae; tergite IX setae S1 and S2 short; tube shorter than head, anal setae shorter than tube; macropterae uncommon and lacking fore wing duplicated cilia.