Kakothrips Williams, 1914

Negiş, İnci Şahin, 2023, Kakothrips acanthus Berzosa (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Türkiye, with an illustrated key to the species of Kakothrips, Zootaxa 5258 (1), pp. 141-145 : 141

Kakothrips Williams

Referring to Priesner (1964) and zur Strassen (2003) the genus Kakothrips is characterized by the continuous row of setae on both longitudinal veins of the fore wing, and the conspicuously long setae on the anterior margin and angles of the pronotum. These features are shared with the genus Frankliniella Karny , and the species in both genera share the following character states: 8-segmented antennae with segments III and IV bearing forked sense cones; maxillary palpi 3-segmented; two pairs of ante-ocellar setae; mesothorax with spinula; ctenidia on tergite VIII located cephalad and lateral to the spiracles. Kakothrips is distinguished from Frankliniella by the position of the interocellar setae which are between the hind ocelli in Kakothrips , while they are usually in front of the hind ocelli in Frankliniella ; fore tarsi with a tooth of varying shape, size, and location in Kakothrips but absent in Frankliniella ; fore wings usually dark coloured (brown) but colourless, pale or grey in Frankliniella ; tergites VI–VIII with weak ctenidia that are well developed on V–VIII in Frankliniella ; female sternite VII S 1 setae distant from hind margin but on the margin in Frankliniella .