Oelschlaegera priesneri (Hood) Hood, 2012

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 : 24

Oelschlaegera priesneri (Hood) comb.n.

Chirothrips priesneri Hood 1949a: 146 .

Distribution: Brazil.

Comments: Mound and Marullo (1996) stated that this species resembled C. ruthae Hood (1949b) and belonged in a new genus. According to zur Strassen (1961), ruthae was similar to his new species C. madagassus , which Bhatti (1990) designated as the type species of Oelschlaegera . Chirothrips ruthae is assigned here to Oelschlaegera (New Combination) based on the examination of the holotype. The females of O. priesneri have similar antenna, head, conical setae, fore wing and broad tergal and sternal posteromarginal flanges as the description and illustration of O. madagassus and holotype of O. ruthae . Oelschlaegera priesneri females have glandular areas on abdominal sternites III–VI which are absent from the other two species.