Acallurothrips Bagnall

Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2013, Review of the spore-feeding Idolothripinae from China (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), ZooKeys 345, pp. 1-28 : 6-7

Acallurothrips Bagnall

Remarks.

There are 22 species listed in this genus, of which five are recorded from China: Acallurothrips tubullatus from Guangdong ( Wang and Tong 2008), and Acallurothrips casuarinae , Acallurothrips hagai , Acallurothrips hanatanii and Acallurothrips nonakai from Taiwan ( Okajima 2006), of which paratypes were studied in ANIC.

Diagnosis.

Head usually broad; postocular setae usually longer than eye, and pointed at apex; stylets long and wide apart; antennae 7-segmented, VII and VIII usually joined with incomplete or complete suture, III with 2 sensoria, IV with 4; pronotum with 4 or 5 pairs of acute setae, sometimes anteroangular setae reduced; notopleural sutures incomplete or complete; basantra present, mesopraesternum reduced a small plate or absent; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes; fore wings broad, usually without duplicated cilia; pelta irregular, usually eroded at posterior margin medially; tergites II–VII with 1 pair of wing-retaining setae; tube usually with sides convex, maximum width more than twice apical width; anal setae much shorter than tube.

Key to Acallurothrips species from China