Akarethrips, Dang & Mound & Qiao, 2014

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 : 17-18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3807.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2D4B429C-A8E3-4B02-9C15-286FCF7D04F1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4918136

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Akarethrips
status

gen. nov.

Akarethrips View in CoL gen.n.

( Figs 6–11 View FIGURES 1–10 View FIGURES 11–20 )

Small-sized Phlaeothripinae with unusually short maxillary stylets; body surface weakly sculptured; head longer than wide, cheeks incut just behind eyes ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 1–10 ); eyes equally developed on dorsal and ventral surfaces, all ommatidia of equal size; postocular setae well-developed; stylets wide apart, V-shaped, not retracted anterior to postoccipital ridge ( Figs 6, 8 View FIGURES 1–10 ); antennae 8-segmented, VIII fused to VII but with weakly complete suture ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 11–20 ), III with 3 slender sensoria, IV with 4, V and VI each with 2 similar sensoria; pronotum with 5 pairs of capitate setae, notopleural sutures complete; basantra present in male, weak in female; mesopresternum divided into three sclerites, median sclerite with pair of setae ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 1–10 ); sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes; fore wings constricted medially, with duplicated cilia ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1–10 ); pelta slightly hat-shaped ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 1–10 ); tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tergite IX with setae S1 and S2 of female expanded at apex; tube with straight sides, shorter than head; male tergite IX setae S2 short and stout ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 1–10 ), sternite VIII without pore plate. Type species: Akarethrips iotus sp.n.

Comments. This new genus shares character states of the fore wing and prosternum with genera of the Haplothripini . Amongst the genera of that tribe in which species have three sensoria on the third segment ( Mound & Minaei 2007; Minaei et al. 2007) it is distinguished by the exceptionally short maxillary stylets that are scarcely retracted into the head.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Phlaeothripidae

SubFamily

Phlaeothripinae

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