Terthrothrips Karny

Dang, Li-Hong, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Conspectus of the Phlaeothripinae genera from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 3807 (1), pp. 1-82 : 73

Terthrothrips Karny

( Figs 97–103 )

Terthrothrips Karny, 1925: 78 . Type species: Phloeothrips sanguinolentus Bergroth , by monotypy.

There are 26 species included in this genus, almost all described from leaf-litter in the Neotropics. However, three species are recorded from China, of which two were described from Japan, and a new species is described here from Java.

Diagnosis: Head usually longer than wide, slightly prolonged in front of eyes, cheeks incut behind eyes ( Figs 97, 98 ); postocular setae long, capitate; mouth-cone short and rounded, stylets short, V-shaped; antennae 8- segmented ( Figs 99–101 ), VIII constricted basally, III and IV each with 2 or 3 sensoria; pronotum with 3 or 4 slender, capitate setae, am reduced, notopleural sutures complete or nearly complete; basantra usually present; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes, fore tibia inner margin often with row of tubercles ( Fig. 97 ); fore wings, if present, parallel-sided without duplicated cilia; pelta variable; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae ( Fig. 103 ); tube shorter than head, anal setae much shorter than tube, about twice as long as apical width of tube; male sternite VIII without pore plate.

Figures

FIGURES 97–103. Terthrothrips spp. Head, pronotum & fore leg 97–98: (97) ananthakrishnani; (98) strasseni. Antennal segments 99–101: (99) ananthakrishnani, VII–VIII; (100) ananthakrishnani, III–VIII; (101) strasseni, III–VIII. Abdominal segments 102–103: (102) strasseni, sternites V–VIII; (103) strasseni, tergites VI–VIII.