Strepterothrips Hood

Strepterothrips Hood

(Fig. 79)

Strepterothrips Hood, 1934: 431. Type species: Strepterothrips conradi Hood, by monotypy.

The nine species listed in this genus are recorded from many different parts of the world, including Florida, Africa and New Zealand. One species was described from India but is recorded from Taiwan as well as northern Australia, and one species described from Thailand is recorded from Malaysia and Singapore. The adults are usually wingless, but are sometimes common on small dead branches.

Diagnosis: Body strongly reticulate (Fig. 79); head with eyes large dorsally, but with few ommatidia ventrally; postocular setae short, capitate; maxillary stylets retracted to eyes, close together medially; antennae 7-segmented, IV–VII with narrow pedicels; III with 1 sensorium, IV with 2 sensoria; pronotal major setae short, broadly expanded; basantra reduced or absent; mesopresternum reduced to 2 small triangular sclerites; sternopleural sutures short; fore tarsi without tooth in both sexes but fore tarsal hamus large in males; fore tibia in males with small apical tubercle; fore wings, when present, constricted medially, without duplicated cilia; pelta broad in apterae, hat-shaped in macropterae; tergites II–VII each with 2 pairs of broad wing-retaining setae in macropterae; S1 setae on tergite IX broadly expanded, S2 pointed; male without sternal pore plates.