Scirtothrips kenyensis Mound

Mound, Laurence A. & Stiller, Michael, 2011, Species of the genus Scirtothrips from Africa (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 2786, pp. 51-61 : 58

Scirtothrips kenyensis Mound

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Scirtothrips kenyensis Mound, 1968b: 535

This species was described from 55 females and three males that were collected together with larvae on cultivated tea in Kenya and Uganda. Adults have also been seen from coffee plants in Kenya, but there is no recorded information on its native host plant. It is a dark species, with one pair of long pronotal setae, and straight cilia on the fore wing.

Diagnosis. Body yellow with extensive brown shading, terga and sterna with dark median areas and dark antecostal ridges, pronotum with brown markings, head brown in ocellar region; antennal segments II–VIII brown; fore wing including clavus brown. Ocellar setae III close together on tangent between anterior margins of posterior ocelli; pronotum striate, setae S2 about 0.5 times as long as pronotum ( Fig. 19 ); forewing second vein with 3 setae, posterior cilia straight; metanotum reticulate ( Fig. 19 ); terga VIII–IX with no microtrichia medially; sterna without microtrichia medially.

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 23. Scirtothrips species. (17) S. longipennis, head and pronotum. (18) S. inermis, terga V – VI. (19) S. kenyensis, pro, meso and metanota. (20) S. mangiferae, terga IV – VI. (21) S. spinosus, head and pronotum. (22) S. spinosus, metanotum. (23) S. zuluensis, meso and metanota.