Murphythrips Mound & Palmer

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

Murphythrips Mound & Palmer

( Fig. 77 )

Murphythrips Mound & Palmer, 1983b: 431 . Type species: Murphythrips legalis Mound & Palmer , by monotypy.

Only one species, described from Singapore, is included in this genus. It is presumably a fungus-feeding species, and like some Urothripini species it is rather depressed dorsoventrally.

Diagnosis: Body tuberculate, with broadly expanded setae; head about as long as wide ( Fig. 77 ); eyes reduced to 3 ommatidia, 2 pairs of postocular setae broadly expanded; stylets retracted to eyes, close together medially, nearly touching; antennae 5-segmented, morphological segments III–V completely fused; pronotum with many setae broadly expanded, notopleural sutures reduced; basantra absent; mesopresternum small; fore tarsal tooth absent in female, present in male; usually apterous; tergite I transvers, broadly fused to II; tergites II–VII without wing-retaining setae; tube encircled by a transverse furrow medially, anal setae shorter than tube; male sternite VIII without pore plate.

Figures

FIGURES 76–79. Phlaeothripinae genera. Head & pronotum 76–79: (76) Isotrichothrips longirostris; (77) Murphythrips legalis; (78) Mystrothrips dammermani; (79) Strepterothrips uenoi.