Crinitothrips Okajima

Dang, Li-Hong, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Conspectus of the Phlaeothripinae genera from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 3807 (1), pp. 1-82 : 28

Crinitothrips Okajima

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Crinitothrips Okajima, 1988: 465 . Type species: Crinitothrips setosus Okajima , by monotypy.

There are five species listed in this genus, one from West Africa, two from Indonesia, one from Singapore, and one from Malaysia, but no species is yet recorded from China. The genus is a member of the Hyidiothrips -group (Okajima 1988), with species living on dead branches.

Diagnosis: Head a little longer than wide, weakly produced in front of eyes; postocular setae usually welldeveloped ( Fig. 31 ); stylets short, retracted into head capsule, V-shaped; antennae 8-segmented, III and IV completely fused with or without suture ( Fig. 31 ), III with 1 sensorium, IV with 2; pronotum with 5 pairs of welldeveloped setae, pm but not ml setae developed, notopleural sutures reduced ( Fig. 31 ); basantra present but weak; mesopresternum absent; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth absent in both sexes; fore wings weak, without duplicated cilia; pelta irregular; tergites II–VII with 1 pair of wing-retaining; tube shorter than head.

Figures

FIGURES 28–33. Phlaeothripinae genera. Head & pronotum 28–33: (28) Baenothrips moundi; (29) Bradythrips hesperus; (30) Asianthrips orientalis; (31) Crinitothrips setosus; (32) Crotonothrips dentifer; (33) Urothrips junctus.