Hapedothrips Bhatti, 1995

Mound, Laurence A., 2024, New generic synonyms amongst Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae listed from Europe and the Mediterranean area, Zootaxa 5428 (1), pp. 146-150 : 149

Hapedothrips Bhatti

( Fig. 16 )

Hapedothrips Bhatti, 1995: 105 .

Type species Haplothrips trifolii angusticornis Priesner 1921 , by monotypy.

This genus was erected by Bhatti for a single species from Europe, Haplothrips angusticornis Priesner. That author stated that the new genus was distinct from Haplothrips on the following character states; the short postocular setae that are “not distinguishable from other head setae”, and “the tegula continuous with the mesoprescutum on either side”. However, as discussed above for Aulothrips , the postocular setae of several species of Haplothrips are short, shorter than the length of an ocellus, although in other species they may be longer than the eye length. The condition in H. angusticornis is thus not exceptional. Unfortunately, Bhatti did not provide any illustration of the tegula condition, the second character state difference that he mentioned. No difference has been seen in these structures between H. angusticornis ( Fig. 16 ) and other Haplothrips species deposited in the collections in London and in Frankfurt. In view of this, Hapedothrips Bhatti is here considered a new synonym of Haplothrips Amyot & Serville.

Figures

FIGURES 8–16. European problem genera. Bebelothrips flavicinctus 8–10: (8) head; (9) tergites IX–X; (10) antenna. (11) Brachythrips flavicornis holotype. (12) Brachythrips dirghavadana head and pronotum. Euryaplothrips crassus 13–15: (13) head and pronotum; (14) prosternites; (15) antenna. (16) Haplothrips angusticornis meso & metanota – arrows indicate tegula.