Scirtothrips mugambii Mound

Mound, Laurence A. & Stiller, Michael, 2011, Species of the genus Scirtothrips from Africa (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 2786, pp. 51-61 : 59

Scirtothrips mugambii Mound

Scirtothrips mugambii Mound, 2010: 66

Described from 11 females and two males collected in Kenya from Cedrus , this dark-bodied species shares with aurantii and dodonaeae the character state of a comb of stout setae on the hind femora of males.

Diagnosis. Body mainly brown, terga and sterna with dark antecostal ridges; antennal segments II–VIII brown; fore wing including clavus brown. Ocellar setae III on or close to tangent between anterior margins of posterior ocelli; pronotum striate but striae less closely spaced than aurantii , posteromarginal setae scarcely 0.3 times as long as pronotum, setae S2 about 1.3 times as long as S1; forewing second vein with 3 setae, posterior cilia wavy; metanotum variably reticulate; terga V–VII with 3 setae on each lateral microtrichial field, VIII usually with one row of microtrichia anteromedially, IX with no microtrichia posteromedially; sterna without microtrichia medially.