Heptathrips Moulton, 1942

Heptathrips Moulton View in CoL

This genus currently comprises eight species worldwide, five from New Zealand, two Africa ( Mound 2007) and one from Saudi Arabia. The species of this genus can be identified by these character states: adults macropterous or apterous; head elevated in mid-line, longer than wide; stylets deeply retracted and close together; po setae small; antennae 7-segmented (if 8-segmented then VII broadly joined to VIII); segments III–IV each with 2 sense cones (rarely one on segment III); pronotum with notopleural sutures complete; prosternal basantra absent; fore tarsus of female with a forwardly-directed tooth arising near inner apical margin; median tergites each with 1 pair of wing-retaining setae, but these sometimes reduced ( Mound & Walker 1986).