Phaulothrips Hood

Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2013, Review of the spore-feeding Idolothripinae from China (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), ZooKeys 345, pp. 1-28 : 23

Phaulothrips Hood

Remarks.

There are 20 species listed in the genus, of which 16 are known only from Australia. Phaulothrips solifer , described from Taiwan, is the only member of the genus known from China. A paratype female and male on loan from Japan have been studied here.

Diagnosis.

Head much longer than broad; eyes normal, sometimes prolonged dorsally; 1 pair of postoculars well developed, close together, anterocellar setae usually elongate; cheeks with 1 pair of stout setae just behind eye; stylets long, close together medially; antennae 8-segmented, segments III–IV each with 2 sensoria; pronotal major setae pointed or slightly blunt, notopleural sutures complete; basantra present; mesopraester num developed; metathoracic sternopleural sutures present; fore wings, if well-developed, with duplicated cilia; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes; pelta broad, with two slender lateral lobes; abdominal tergites II–VII each with 1 pair of sigmoid wing-retaining setae in macroptera; tube smooth without lateral setae; anal setae shorter than tube.