<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Apelaunothrips madrasensis Ananthakrishnan</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> </head> <body> <h1> <i>Apelaunothrips madrasensis</i> (Ananthakrishnan) comb.rev.</h1> <p>(Figs 5, 21)</p> <p>Described in the genus <i>Malacothrips</i>, and transferred to <i>Apelaunothrips</i> by Mound (1974), this species was later transferred to <i>Dexiothrips</i> by Okajima (1979). It is here returned to <i>Apelaunothrips</i> in view of the long stylets that are less than one third of the head width apart medially (Fig. 5). In contrast, the only species in the genus <i>Dexiothrips</i>, from Africa, has the stylets at least 0.5 of the head width apart and low in the head. Antennal segment VIII of <i>madrasensis</i> has a distinct basal neck (Fig. 21), the mesonotal lateral setae are long and capitate, the pelta lacks campaniform sensilla, on tergite IX the major setae are longer than the tube and the iS setal pair is two-thirds as long as setae S 1.</p> <p> <b>Specimen studied</b>. <b>Indonesia</b>, Java, Tjibodas Gardens, 1 female from grass, 22.x. 1973, in the Natural History Museum, London.</p> </body> </html>