Thrips hoodi Priesner

Thrips hoodi Priesner 1938: 352

Described from an unspecified number of females from Zaire, a few specimens have also been studied from Angola. This species is unusual in having so many setae on the margin of the forewing clavus and posterior margin of the pronotum.

Diagnosis. Body and legs brown, tarsi and fore tibiae yellowish, antennal segment III yellow; forewing shaded but slightly paler near base. Antennae 7-segmented. Ocellar setae III small, just within ocellar triangle. Pronotum without sculpture, posterior margin with 5–6 pairs of setae between the posteroangular setae. Metanotum with narrow elongate reticulation with internal markings, median setae not at anterior margin; campaniform sensilla present. Forewing first vein with 2 or 3 distal setae; clavus with 7–9 marginal setae. Abdominal tergite VIII with long slender comb. Sternites with up to 20 discal setae in two irregular rows; pleurotergites with up to 6 discal setae.