Okajimathrips Bhatti

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 : 62

Okajimathrips Bhatti

( Fig. 133 )

Okajimathrips Bhatti, 1992: 130 . Type species: Podothrips kentingensis Okajima , by monotypy.

This genus includes a single species, described from Taiwan. It presumably has a similar biology to Podothrips species —predatory on Coccoidea on Poaceae ( Mound & Minaei 2007) , and is a member of the Haplothripini although not mentioned by Mound and Minaei (2007).

Diagnosis: Head a little longer than wide ( Fig. 133 ); eyes normal, postocular setae developed, wide apart; stylets retracted to postocular setae, far apart medially; antennae 8-segmented, III and IV each with 2 sensoria; pronotum with 3 pairs of capitate setae ( Fig. 133 ), am, ml reduced, but aa and pa much smaller than epimerals, notopleural sutures incomplete; basantra present; mesopresternum eroded medially, divided into two lateral plates; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes, fore tibia with a subapical tubercle; fore wings weakly constricted medially, without duplicated cilia; pelta irregular; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tergite IX with S1 short and expanded; tube with straight sides, about as long as head, anal setae longer than tube; male sternite VIII with a pair of pore plates.

Figures

FIGURES 130–133. Phlaeothripinae genera. Head & pronotum: (130) Ecacanthothrips claricornis, male; (131) Phylladothrips pictus; (132) Glenothrips biuncinatus; (133) Okajimathrips kentingensis.