Pygothripini

Eow, L. X., Mound, L. A. & Ng, Y. F., 2011, Genera of Spore-Feeding Thysanoptera from Southeast Asia (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), with a species checklist from Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 2928 (1), pp. 1-19 : 11

Tribe Pygothripini

Members of this tribe have only one pair of sigmoid wing-retaining setae on each abdominal tergite (with two exceptions from Australia). The tube (tenth abdominal segment) is never greatly elongate, usually not more than three times the length of the ninth tergite, and the margins of the tube do not bear prominent lateral setae (with two exceptions, from New Zealand and Fiji). The metathoracic sternopleural sutures are commonly present, although absent in the subtribe Macrothripina , and the metathoracic anapleural sutures are always complete. Six subtribes are recognised in the Pygothripini , and each of these is represented in Southeast Asia.