Machatothrips Bagnall

Machatothrips Bagnall View in CoL

Remarks.

Of the 14 species included in this genus, three are recorded from China: Machatothrips antennatus , Machatothrips artocarpi and Machatothrips celosia . Several specimens of Machatothrips antennatus and Machatothrips artocarpi have been studied in ANIC, and these were identified from the types. The third species, Machatothrips celosia , was described from Taiwan and is added to the key below based on the key to 14 species by Palmer and Mound (1978).

Diagnosis.

Head much longer than broad; eyes normal; 1 pair of postoculars well-developed, also 1 pair of interocellars and 1 pair of vertex setae; stylets V-shaped; antennae 8-segmented, segment III with 2 sensoria, IV with 4; pronotum usually with 5 pairs of major setae, notopleural sutures complete; basantra present; mesopraesternum boat-shaped; metathoracic sternopleural sutures absent; fore wings with duplicated cilia; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes; females with fore femur bearing a row of tubercles on inner margin; pelta broadly triangular; abdominal tergites II–VII each with 1 pair of sigmoid wing-retaining setae; tube longer than head, without prominent lateral setae; anal setae shorter than tube.

Key to Machatothrips species from China