Deplorothrips Mound & Walker

Dang, Li-Hong, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Conspectus of the Phlaeothripinae genera from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 3807 (1), pp. 1-82 : 29

Deplorothrips Mound & Walker

Deplorothrips Mound & Walker, 1986: 49 . Type species: Deplorothrips bassus Mound & Walker , by monotypy.

The type species of this genus of nine species is from New Zealand , and undescribed species are known from eastern Australia, but the other eight named species are recorded from the following parts of Asia: three from southern Japan of which one is also known from Taiwan; a second species was described from Taiwan, two from Peninsular Malaysia, one from Thailand and one from the Philippines.

Diagnosis: Head as long as wide or longer, cheeks usually with at least one pair of small stout setae; postocular setae usually developed; stylets V-shaped, retracted scarcely or not at all anterior to occipital ridge; antennae 8- segmented, VIII broad at base, often fused with VII, III with 3 sensoria, IV with 4 (rarely 3); pronotum usually with 4 pairs of major setae, am usually reduced, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes; fore tibia usually with subapical tubercle in male; fore wings, if present, weakly constricted medially, duplicated cilia present; pelta bell-shaped, or broader; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae in macroptera; tube shorter than head, anal setae about as long as tube; male sternites II–VII usually with reticulate areas, VIII with pair of pore plates, or one slender one.