Psalidothrips 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 : 68-69

Psalidothrips Priesner

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Psalidothrips Priesner, 1932: 61 . Type species: Psalidothrips amens Priesner , by monotypy.

There are 28 species listed in this genus, from various parts of the tropics across the world. Wang et al. (2007) recorded nine species from southern China together with an identification key, and another species was described from Indonesia. Members of this genus typically live in leaf-litter as fungus-feeders.

Diagnosis: Body commonly dorso-ventrally flattened; head usually a little longer than wide ( Fig. 73 ); postocular setae developed, wide apart, situated near cheeks, cheeks usually incut just behind eyes; stylets usually short, V- or U-shaped; antennae 8-segmented, VIII usually constricted basally, III with 2 or 3 sensoria, IV with 2, 3 or 4; pronotum usually with 3 major setae, am and aa setae reduced, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth present in male, usually absent in female; fore wings, if developed, weakly constricted medially, without duplicated cilia, sub-basal setae minute; pelta hat- or bell-shaped; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae in macroptera; tube shorter than head, anal setae about as long as tube; male sternite VIII with pore plate.

Figures

FIGURES 71–75. Phlaeothripinae genera. Heads 71–73: (71) Litotetothrips sp.; (72) Macrophthalmothrips flavafemora; (73) Psalidothrips sp. Plectrothrips australis 74–75: (74) Head & pronotum; (75) Metanotum & tergites I–III.