Lizalothrips Okajima

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 : 49

Lizalothrips Okajima *

Lizalothrips Okajima, 1984: 729 . Type species: Lizalothrips luzonensis Okajima , by monotypy.

Two species are currently placed in this genus, one from Luzon and the second from Sabah. The genus is considered to be related to Apelaunothrips , although the maxillary stylets are slender, and the eyes are much longer ventrally than dorsally.

Diagnosis: Head slightly longer than wide, projecting slightly in front of eyes; eyes large and rounded, longer ventrally than dorsally, cheeks sharply incut behind eyes; postocular setae wide apart, shorter than eye; stylets less than one third of head width apart, retracted to postocular setae; antennae 8-segmented, III with 2 sensoria, IV with 3; pronotum with 5 pairs of capitate setae, ml rather close to aa; notopleural sutures incomplete; basantra absent; sternopleural sutures weak; fore tarsal tooth absent; fore wings parallel-sided, with duplicated cilia; pelta slightly hat-shaped; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae, unciform on II–III, VIII with 1 weakly curved pair; tergite IX setae almost as long as tube; tube about half as long as head.