Macrophthalmothrips Karny

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 : 54

Macrophthalmothrips Karny

( Fig. 72 )

Ophthalmothrips Karny, 1920: 38 . Type species: Ophthalmothrips argus Karny , by monotypy.

Macrophthalmothrips Karny, 1922a: 34 . Replacement name for Ophthalmothrips Karny nec Ophthalmothrips Hood, 1919 .

There are 16 species listed in this distinctive, pantropical genus of fungus-feeding thrips on dead branches. Two species are described from Southeast Asia, one from Laos and the other from Java, Indonesia, but no species is recorded from China.

Diagnosis: Body black with yellow and white markings, eyes bright red; head longer than wide; eyes holoptic, surrounding ocellar region ( Fig. 72 ); postocular setae usually minute; mouth-cone extending to mesosternum, stylets retracted to eyes, close together medially; antennae 8-segmented, III with 2 sensoria, IV with 4; pronotum with 5 pairs of major setae, notopleural sutures incomplete; basantra absent; mesopresternum divided into two plates; sternopleural sutures present, but short; fore tarsi without tooth; fore wings parallel-sided, with duplicated cilia; pelta bell-shaped; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of wing retaining setae; tube shorter than head, anal setae shorter than tube; male sternite VIII without pore plate.

Figures

FIGURES 71–75. Phlaeothripinae genera. Heads 71–73: (71) Litotetothrips sp.; (72) Macrophthalmothrips flavafemora; (73) Psalidothrips sp. Plectrothrips australis 74–75: (74) Head & pronotum; (75) Metanotum & tergites I–III.