Ambaeolothrips microstriatus (Hood) comb. n.

(Figs 6, 15, 16, 22)

Aeolothrips microstriatus Hood, 1935: 103

Without seeing the specimen, and with no explanatory comment, Bhatti (1999) listed this species in the genus Streothrips . It remains known from a single male in the United States National Museum of Natural History, Beltsville, Maryland (Fig. 15). This was collected from unidentified Asteraceae flowers in Panama in March, 1934, and is strongly bicoloured, in contrast to the uniformly brown males of romanruizi . Unfortunately, the terminal abdominal segments are slightly telescoped into each other, and the chaetotaxy of tergite IX is thus difficult to observe and illustrate, although it appears to be similar to that of romanruizi (Fig. 19). The fore wing colour pattern resembles that of the new species described below from southern Brazil.