Scirtothrips fulleri Faure

Mound, Laurence A. & Stiller, Michael, 2011, Species of the genus Scirtothrips from Africa (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 2786, pp. 51-61 : 57

Scirtothrips fulleri Faure

Scirtothrips fulleri Faure, 1929: 10

Described from 84 females and 31 males collected in Transvaal and Cape Province, particularly from two species of Acacia , this species has also been collected in the Cape Verde Islands (zur Strassen, 1993), including a long series of females from Dichrostachys cinerea (as glomerata) ( Mimosaceae ). The thrips is unusual because, in common with inermis , mangiferae and spinosus the tergal microtrichial fields have four, rather than three, setae.

Diagnosis. Body mainly yellow, terga and sterna with dark antecostal ridges but without median dark area; antennal segments III–IV slightly paler than V–VIII; fore wing including clavus weakly shaded but wing apex pale. Ocellar setae III on or just within anterior margins of triangle; pronotum closely striate, posteromarginal setae no more than 0.3 as long as pronotum, S2 about 1.3 times as long as S1; fore wing second vein with 1–5 setae, cilia straight; metanotum transversely striate at anterior, apparently longitudinally striate medially; terga V–VII with 4 setae on each lateral microtrichial field, tergum VIII with microtrichia anteromedially, IX with microtrichia posteromedially; sterna without microtrichia medially. [zur Strassen (1993) states that females from Cape Verde Islands have 1–2 rows of microtrichia medially near the sternal posterior margins; these are not visible on the available paratypes].