Biltothrips Bhatti, 1973

Ng, Y. F., Mound, L. A. & Azidah, A. A., 2014, The genus Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Malaysia, with four new species and comments on Biltothrips, a related genus, Zootaxa 3856 (2), pp. 253-266 : 265

Biltothrips Bhatti

( Figs 33–38 )

Biltothrips Bhatti, 1973: 438 . Type species Sericothrips minutus Bhatti 1967 , by monotypy

The only species in this genus shares many character states with Scirtothrips , but is distinguished as follows: absence of a pair of setae in front of the first ocellus (ocellar setae pair I); absence of mid-dorsal seta on antennal segment II; absence of setae on fore wing second vein; lateral position of tergal setal pair S1 that arise close to S2 and to the lateral microtrichial fields ( Fig. 36 ).

The only known species in this genus was described from both sexes collected in West Bengal, India ( Bhatti 1967). Subsequently, specimens were collected on the SOCIETY ISLANDS in the Pacific Ocean ( Hoddle et al. 2008), one female from Bangkok, THAILAND, is available in ANIC, Canberra, and the species is here recorded from MALAYSIA, Pahang, Pulau Tioman, 4 females 3 males collected on Cassava leaves, 8.vii.2013 (Ng, Y.F.), (in CISUKM and ANIC).

Figures

FIGURES 33–38. Biltothrips minutus Bhatti. (33) Head and pronotum; (34) Metascutum; (35) Abdominal sternites V–VII; (36) Abdominal tergites IV–IX; (37) Antenna; (38) Fore wing.