Rohrthrips Nel, Penalver, Azar, Hodebert & Nel 2010

Rohrthrips Nel, Peñalver, Azar, Hodebert & Nel, 2010

Type species: R. libanicus Nel, Peñalver, Azar, Hodebert & Nel, 2010

Diagnosis. Abdominal segment X tubiform, without a median suture, but with a crown of long apical anal setae. Antennae nine-segmented. Maxillary stylets deeply retracted into the head capsule and close together (Fig. 37; Ulitzka 2018, 2019). Fore wings becoming progressively larger in distal half (Figs 12–13, 18); with a first vein bearing setae and, in some species, additionally with a second much shorter vein without setae (Fig. 18); cross-veins not developed; wing tips broadly rounded. Fringe cilia in most species arising from sockets. Duplicated cilia present around wing apex; running parallel to normal wing fringes. Fore wing clavus with paired setiform processes at tip and hind wing with basal recurved setae, wing coupling hamulo-frenate (Fig. 27). Abdomen without sigmoidal wing retaining setae; abdominal tergite II with a pair of distinct dorsolateral sutures (Fig. 30). The latter feature is rarely found in Tubulifera and has not been documented so far in Rohrthrips (see discussion below); it is also present in Paralleloalathrips bivenatus gen. et sp. n.