Sagenothrips Priesner

Sagenothrips Priesner *

Sagenothrips Priesner, 1933b: 72. Type species: Sagenothrips gracilicornis Priesner, by monotypy.

The only species placed in this genus was described from a single female taken in southern Sumatra, Indonesia. The very short major setae on head and pronotum are unusual amongst the reticulate-headed glyptothripine taxa.

Diagnosis. Head longer than wide, strongly reticulate dorsally; eyes normal, cheeks almost parallel-sided, sharply in-cut behind eyes; postocular setae very small but capitate; stylets?; antennae 8-segmented, III and IV each with 3 sensoria, segment VIII long, slender and constricted to base; pronotum reticulate, 4 pairs of setae very small but epimeral setae almost 20 microns long, notopleural sutures?; basantra?; mesopresternum?; sternopleural sutures?; fore tarsal tooth small, but hamus hooked and pointed; fore wings parallel-sided, without duplicated cilia; pelta?; tergal wing-retaining setae?; tube narrowed distally, shorter than head; male not known.