Crotonothrips Ananthakrishnan
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3807.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4918180 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4A1A87F9-6647-4735-2BFA-FA12C7F2F849 |
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Crotonothrips Ananthakrishnan |
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Crotonothrips Ananthakrishnan View in CoL
( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 28–33 )
Crotonothrips Ananthakrishnan, 1968: 119 View in CoL . Type species: Crotonothrips gallarum Ananthakrishnan View in CoL , by monotypy.
This genus comprises 16 species, all of which feed on the leaves of trees, and most of which are from India. One species is recorded from Taiwan, dentifer Priesner ( Okajima 2006) View in CoL , but none from mainland China. One species was described from Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is also known from Java as well as Malaysia, and this galls the leaves and stunts the growth of the widely planted decorative tree Polyalthia longifolia ( Nasruddin & Mound 2012) View in CoL .
Diagnosis: Head usually as long as wide; eyes normal, postocular setae well-developed ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 28–33 ); stylets variable, wide apart or close together; antennae 8-segmented, VIII widely fused to VII, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 3; pronotum with epim setae well-developed, other major setae usually short, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum reduced; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes; fore wings parallel-sided, with duplicated cilia; pelta triangular; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tergite IX setae S2 shorter than S 1 in both sexes; tube longer than head, anal setae shorter than tube.
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Phlaeothripinae |
Crotonothrips Ananthakrishnan
Dang, Li-Hong, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Ge-Xia 2014 |
Crotonothrips
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. 1968: 119 |