Zelotothrips Priesner

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 : 76

Zelotothrips Priesner

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Zelotothrips Priesner, 1952: 200 . Type species: Cryptothrips fuscipennis Karny , by monotypy.

The only species placed in this genus was described on both sexes from Java, Indonesia, taken in a gall on Spatholobus . It is a member of the Liothrips -lineage, but has long antennal sensoria, cheeks with stout setae and striate metanotal sculpture.

Diagnosis: Head longer than wide, cheeks with numerous stout setae ( Fig. 121 ); eyes normal, without enlarged ommatidia, postocular setae shorter than width of an eye, arising behind inner margin of eyes; stylets about onethird of head width apart, retracted half-way to postocular setae; antennae 8-segmented, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 3, sensoria long and slender; pronotum with 5 pairs of major setae developed, aa and am smaller, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum reduced to pair of lateral triangles; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth absent in female, present in male; fore femora of male swollen; metanotum closely striate medially; fore wings parallel-sided, with duplicated cilia; pelta triangular, slightly recessed into anterior margin of tergite II; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of sigmoid wing-retaining setae, tergite IX setae longer than tube; tube with straight sides, slightly shorter than head.

Figures

FIGURES 118–121. Liothrips-lineage. Head & pronotum: (118) Adelphothrips longisetosus; (119) Gemmathrips brevis; (120) Rosingothrips ommatus; (121) Zelotothrips fuscipennis.