Organothrips, Hood, 1940

Ng, Y. F., 2017, Organothrips stongensis sp. n. and Watanabeothrips yasuakii Okajima: new records from Peninsular Malaysia of Thysanoptera: Thripidae, Zootaxa 4341 (2), pp. 283-286 : 283

Key to male species of Organothrips

1. Body uniformly brown or strongly bicolored.................................................................................................................................... 2

-. Body uniformly pale.......................................................................................................................................................................... 3

2. Macropterous; body brown; abdominal sternites III–VII with a broadly oval pore plate on anterior half ..............................wrighti

-. Micropterous ( Fig.7 ); body strongly bicolored, head and abdominal segments VI–X dark brown; abdominal sternites III–VIII with multiple small pore plates that are elongate and L-shaped laterally ( Fig. 6 ) ..................................................... stongensis sp.n.

3. Head with ocelli; abdominal tergite IX with a pair of stout setae ...........................................................................................indicus

-. Head without ocelli; abdominal tergite IX without a pair of stout setae ................................................................................ bianchii

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Organothrips stongensis sp. n.: (1) Head; (2) Pronotum; (3) Meso- and metanotum; (4) Meso- and metasterna; (5) abdominal tergites IV – VII; (6) Sternites III – VIII; (7) Male body; (8) Fore tibia.