Sericothrips Haliday

Mirab-Balou, Majid, Hu, Qing-Ling, Feng, Ji-Nian & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2011, A new species of Sericothripinae from China (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with two new synonyms and one new record, Zootaxa 3009, pp. 55-61 : 56

Genus Sericothrips Haliday

Sericothrips Haliday, 1836: 444 .

Sussericothrips Han, 1991: 208 –211 (Synonymized by Mound & Tree, 2009: 21).

Nine species are listed in this genus ( Mound & Tree, 2009; Mound, 2011). Most of these are based on micropterae ( Figs 19–20 ), but some from both micropterous and macropterous morphs ( Fig. 18 ). These species have the abdominal terga completely covered with microtrichia medially (Fig. 6) ( Mound & Tree, 2009), whereas species in the other two genera have closely spaced rows of microtrichia only laterally on the abdominal terga (Figs 4–5). Species of Hydatothrips have the metasternum with a median V-shaped apodeme (Figs 1–2), whereas this apodeme is T-shaped or Y-shaped in Neohydatothrips (Fig. 3) and Sericothrips ( Wang, 2007; Mound & Tree, 2009).

Figures

FIGURES 18 – 20. S. houji: (18) macropterous female, (19) micropterous female, (20) micropterous male (Scale bar = 200 microns).