Odontothrips Amyot & Serville

Tyagi, Kaomud & Kumar, Vikas, 2016, A new record of Holarctic genus Odontothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from India with a new species, Zootaxa 4067 (4), pp. 484-488 : 484

Odontothrips Amyot & Serville

Odontothrips Amyot & Serville 1843: 642 . Type species Thrips phaleratus Haliday

This genus can be distinguished from the other genera of the Megalurothrips genus-group by the following set of characters ( Mirab-balou & Chen 2011). Tarsi 2-segmented; fore tibiae and fore tarsus with or without tubercles or claw like processes at apex ( Xie et al. 2010); the base of antennal segment VI greatly elongated; head with 3 pairs of ocellar setae, pair III longer than other head setae; postocular arranged in one row; pronotum with 2 pairs of similarly long posteroangular setae; ferna entire; mesothoracic sternopleural sutures present; metanotal median pair of setae situated at the anterior margin; spinula present on mesosternum but absent on metasternum ( Fig. 4 ); setae on first vein of fore wing interrupted subapically, with 2–4 distal setae, second vein with complete row of setae; tergite VIII with posteromarginal comb but absent in middle; abdominal tergites and laterotergites without accessory setae; sternite VII with S1 setae ahead of posterior margin; tergite X of female with incomplete longitudinal split; male abdominal sternites without pore areas, tergite IX of male with or without pair of processes and if present, these are either short, stout, thorn-like or sometimes sigmoid shaped; endotheca of phallus with or without endothecal spines supported by canaliculi ( Pitkin 1972).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. Odontothrips moringa. (1) female; (2) Male and female in copulation; (2) female; (3) Head and pronotum, female; (4) Meso- & metasterna, female; (5) fore wing, female.