Myopothrips Priesner

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 : 58

Myopothrips Priesner

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Myopothrips Priesner, 1940: 405 . Type species: Myopothrips symplocobius Priesner , by monotypy.

The only species in the genus was described from Java, Indonesia, from a single female. It is considered to belong to the Liothrips -lineage, because antennal segment III has one sensorium and segment IV has three sensoria, also the basantra are absent on the prosternum.

Diagnosis: Head a little longer than wide, with convex cheeks; postocular setae short and stout; maxillary stylets one-third of head width apart, retracted to postocular setae; antennae 8-segmented, VIII weakly constricted at base, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 3; pronotum with setae epim and pa long and pointed, am setae minute, aa and ml short and stout, notopleural sutures complete; fore tarsal tooth absent in female, fore tibia with sharply curved, pointedtooth on inner apex ( Fig. 142 ), fore femora swollen; fore wings with duplicated cilia; pelta broadly triangular; tergites with 2 pairs of long, curved (not sigmoid) wing-retaining setae; tergite IX setae about 0.8 as long as tube; tube about as long as head, anal setae shorter than tube.

Figures

FIGURES 134–142. Phlaeothripinae genera. Antennae 134–138: (134) Acanthothrips nodicornis; (135) Propealiothrips moundi; (136) Haplothrips ganlbaueri; (137) Haplothrips clarisetis; (138) Xylaplothrips inquilinus; Tergites IX–X 139–141: (139) Xylaplothrips inquilinus; (140) Praepodothrips causiapeltus; (141) Podothrips ferruginenus. (142) Myopothrips symplocobius, fore tibiae.