Ponticulothrips Haga & Okajima

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 : 66

Ponticulothrips Haga & Okajima

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Ponticulothrips Haga & Okajima, 1983: 241 . Type species: Ponticulothrips diospyrosi Haga & Okajima , by monotypy.

The only species in this genus, diospyrosi , is at present known only from Honshu and Kyushu in Japan. However, the host plant, Diospyros kaki , is widely cultivated in China, and this thrips that causes damage to the leaves and fruits is likely to have a wider distribution than currently recorded.

Diagnosis. Head a little longer than wide, cheeks with a pair of stout setae ( Fig. 80 ); eyes normal, postocular setae developed; stylets retracted to postocular setae, wide apart; antennae 8-segmented, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 3; pronotum with 5 pairs of developed setae, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes; fore wings parallel-sided, with duplicated cilia; pelta bell-shaped; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tube shorter than head, anal setae shorter than tube; male sternite VIII without pore plate.

Figures

FIGURES 80–83. Phlaeothripinae genera. Head & pronotum 80–83: (80) Ponticulothrips diospyrosi; (81) Praeciputhrips balli; (82) Rosingothrips ommatus; (83) Sphingothrips trachypogon.