Konothrips

Nakahara, Sueo & Foottit, Robert G., 2012, Review of Chirothrips and related genera (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the Americas, with descriptions of one new genus and four new species, Zootaxa 3251, pp. 1-29 : 23

Key to species of Konothrips

1. Invaginations of mesosternal furcal arms widely separated by about width of mesothoracic coxae; abdominal submarginal sculpture oriented longitudinally ( Fig 42 ); ovipositor without teeth............................... tuttlei (zur Strassen)

-. Invaginations of mesosternal furca separated by 3/10 to 2/5 width of mesothoracic coxae; abdominal submarginal sculpture oriented diagonally ( Fig. 50 ); ovipositor with sparse teeth.............................................. colei sp.n.

Figures

FIGURES 31 – 42. Chirothrips and Konothrips species. Figs 31 – 38, right antenna (dorsal aspect unless otherwise noted) of Chirothrips spp. (31) C. hamatus; (32) C. aculeatus, (32 a) ventral aspect of segment IV; (33) C. insolitus (after zur Strassen 1960) (arrow indicates location of inner sense cone of segment VI); (34) C. andrei (after zur Strassen 1974); (35) C. praeoculari s; (36) C. manicatus (after zur Strassen 1959); (37) C. cuneiceps; (38) C. simplex (after zur Strassen 1967 a). (39) C. hamatus, left foreleg. (40) C. alexandrae, head, dorsal aspect. (41) C. manicatus, head, dorsal aspect. (42) Konothrips tuttlei, abdominal tergite.

FIGURES 43 – 51. Konothrips colei sp. n., holotype female. (43) right antenna, dorsal aspect; (44) head, dorsal aspect; (45) pronotum; (46) right foreleg; (47) pro- and mesosterna; (48) mesonotum; (49) metanotum; (50) abdominal tergite IV; (51) abdominal segment IV, sternite and pleurites. Scale bar 100 μm.