Baenothrips Crawford

Mound, Laurence A., Dang, Li-Hong & Tree, Desley J., 2013, Genera of fungivorous Phlaeothripinae (Thysanoptera) from dead branches and leaf-litter in Australia, Zootaxa 3681 (3), pp. 201-224 : 207

Baenothrips Crawford

Of the 11 species worldwide listed in this genus, two are described from Australia. B. caenosus is from eastern Australia, and B. moundi is widespread from Tasmania to Cape Tribulation, but there are several undescribed species from eastern Australia in ANIC. The remaining species in the genus are described from various countries in tropical areas, and all members of the genus live in leaf litter or on dead twigs.

Diagnosis. Body tuberculate-reticulate; head anterior margin with 3 pairs of prominent setae, compound eyes reduced to 10–15 facets; stylets retracted to eyes, 1/3 of head width apart; antennae 8-segmented, III with no sensorium, IV with 2 sensoria; pronotum with only epimeral setae well-developed, notopleural sutures reduced; basantra reduced to 2 small lateral triangles; mesopraesternum slender, transverse; metathoracic epimera enlarged and tuberculate, no sternopleural sutures; fore tarsi without tooth; fore wings, if present, narrow, no duplicated cilia; pelta transverse; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of broad wing-retaining setae in macropterae; tergite IX three times as long as VIII; tube long and slender with apex slightly widened; anal setae more than twice as long as tube; male sternite VIII without pore plate.