Ctenothrips Franklin

Tyagi, Kaomud, Ghosh, Biswatosh & Kumar, Vikas, 2014, The genus Ctenothrips from India (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with description of one new species and one new record, Zootaxa 3821 (3), pp. 273-279 : 273

Ctenothrips Franklin

Ctenothrips Franklin 1907: 247 . Type species Ctenothrips bridwelli Franklin.

This genus can be distinguished from other genera of Thripinae by the long abdominal segment X with almost parallel margins and the polygonal reticulation on the metanotum and abdominal tergites and sternites.

Diagnosis. Both sexes macropterous or brachypterous. Head longer than broad or as long as broad with 2 or 3 pairs of ocellar setae; maxillary palp 3-segmented; antennae 8-segmented, segment I without dorsal apical setae; III and IV each with forked sense cones; pronotum with two pairs of posteroangular setae, basantra weakly chitinised or absent, ferna entire, undivided; mesosternum with or without spinula, metasternum without spinula; fore wing long and narrow, first and second veins with row of setae; surface of abdominal tergites and sternites with polygonal reticulation; sternites without discal setae, laterotergites with or without discal setae; abdominal tergite VIII posterior margin with complete comb of microtrichia; tergite X elongate, almost parallel-sided, with a complete ventral longitudinal split.