Mystrothrips Priesner

Mystrothrips Priesner

(Fig. 78)

Mystrothrips Priesner, 1949: 117. Type species: Sagenothrips dammermani Priesner, by monotypy.

Seven species are included in this genus, of which two are recorded from Southern China, two from southern Japan, and one each from Java, Korea, the Solomon Islands, and southern Brazil. Specimens have also been studied in ANIC from Nepal, India, Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Australia (Mound et al. 2013).

Diagnosis: Head usually as long as wide, weakly to strongly prolonged in front of eyes, strongly reticulate dorsally (Fig. 78); cheeks incut behind eyes; postocular setae usually well developed; stylets usually wide apart, Vshaped; antennae 8-segmented, VIII constricted basally, III with 2 or 3 sensoria, IV usually with 3; pronotum usually with 5 pairs of capitate setae, notopleural sutures complete or nearly complete; basantra usually present; mesopresternum strongly eroded; sternopleural sutures present or absent; fore tarsal tooth usually present, sometimes absent in female; fore wings, if developed, without duplicated cilia; pelta variable; tergites without wing retaining setae; tube shorter than head, anal setae shorter than tube or a little longer; male sternite VIII without pore plate.