Thrips scotti (Moulton)

Mound, Laurence A., 2010, Species of the Genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from the Afro-tropical Region, Zootaxa 2423, pp. 1-24 : 15

Thrips scotti (Moulton)

Isochaetothrips scotti Moulton, 1928: 228

Described from seven females collected in forest at 9000 feet on Mt Chillalo, Ethiopia, the following diagnosis is based on the holotype. In structure, this species seems to be identical to T. fumosoides from Zaire, but has the base of the forewing sharply pale.

Diagnosis. Body & legs dark brown, tarsi yellow; forewing brown with basal quarter pale; antennal segment III largely yellow with brown apex. Antennae 8-segmented. Head as long as wide; ocellar setae III short, on anterior margins of triangle; postocular setae 2 & 4 much shorter than 1, 3 and 5. Pronotum almost without sculpture lines medially, posteroangular setae about 0.7 as long as pronotum. Metanotum with equiangular reticulation, and markings within reticles; median setae not at anterior margin, campaniform sensilla present. Forewing first vein with complete row of closely spaced setae; terminal seta on clavus slightly shorter than sub-terminal seta. Abdominal tergite II with four lateral marginal setae; tergites almost without sculpture mesad of setae S2; VIII with complete comb of slender microtrichia, but these shorter medially. Sternites III–VII with transverse row of about 10 discal setae; pleurotergites without discal setae.