Aleurodothrips Franklin

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 : 20

Aleurodothrips Franklin

( Figs 21, 22 )

Aleurodothrips Franklin, 1909: 228 . Type species: Cryptothrips fasciapennis Franklin , by monotypy.

The only species in this genus is widespread around the tropics and sub-tropics, including Southern China, and is a predator of whitefly and scale insects ( Palmer & Mound 1991). The head is unusual ( Bhatti 1998) in that ventrally the labro-maxillary complex is fused with the cranium.

Diagnosis: Head slightly produced in front of eyes ( Fig. 21 ); eyes normal, postocular setae minute; stylets long and wide apart; antennae 8-segmented, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 2; pronotum with aa and epim setae developed, notopleural sutures vestigial; basantra present; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures absent; male with fore tarsal tooth and a tooth on inner margin of fore femur, female fore legs unarmed; fore wings with three brown bands, without duplicated cilia; pelta weak; tergites II–VII with 1 pair of wing-retaining setae; male tergite IX with S2 long ( Fig. 22 ); tube with straight sides, shorter than head.

Figures

FIGURES 21–27. Phlaeothripinae genera. Aleurodothrips sp. 21–22: (21) female; (22) male. Ventral view of thorax 23–24: (23) Apterygothrips viretum; (24) Asianthrips orientalis. (25) Baenothrips moundi, tergites III–X. Head & pronotum 26–27: (26) Bagnalliella sp.; (27) Bamboosiella cingulata.