Podothrips Hood

Dang, Li-Hong, Zhao, Le, Wang, Xia & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2019, Review of Podothrips from China (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), with one new species and three new records, ZooKeys 882, pp. 41-49 : 41

Podothrips Hood

Podothrips Hood, 1913: 67. Type species: Podothrips semiflavus Hood.

Diagnosis.

Small sized, usually bicoloured brown and yellow, but a few uniformly brown. Head smooth, longer than wide, with one pair of postocular setae; antennae eight-segmented, segment III with one or two sense cones, IV with two or three. Pronotum well developed, am always minute; notopleural sutures complete; basantra usually longer than wide; fore tarsus with tooth on inner surface, fore tibia often with a sub-apical tubercle or tooth. Mesopresternum complete, boat-shaped. Metathoracic sternopleural sutures well developed. Forewing fully developed, slightly constricted medially, with or without duplicated cilia. Pelta bell-shaped. Abdominal tergites II–VII each with two pairs of wing-retaining setae. Tube shorter than head, anal setae long than tube.

Comments.

This genus is closely related to Praepodothrips with which it shares most morphological characters, but it differs in having larger basantra. It is also similar to Karnyothrips and Okajimathrips , but Podothrips can be recognised by the developed basantra and metathoracic sternopleural sutures ( Karnyothrips species have normal basantra and metathoracic sternopleural sutures absent), and the pronotal notopleural sutures complete ( Okajimathrips with pronotal notopleural sutures incomplete).