Zelotothrips Priesner

(Fig. 121)

Zelotothrips Priesner, 1952: 200 . Type species: Cryptothrips fuscipennis Karny, by monotypy.

The only species placed in this genus was described on both sexes from Java, Indonesia, taken in a gall on Spatholobus . It is a member of the Liothrips -lineage, but has long antennal sensoria, cheeks with stout setae and striate metanotal sculpture.

Diagnosis: Head longer than wide, cheeks with numerous stout setae (Fig. 121); eyes normal, without enlarged ommatidia, postocular setae shorter than width of an eye, arising behind inner margin of eyes; stylets about onethird of head width apart, retracted half-way to postocular setae; antennae 8-segmented, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 3, sensoria long and slender; pronotum with 5 pairs of major setae developed, aa and am smaller, notopleural sutures complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum reduced to pair of lateral triangles; sternopleural sutures present; fore tarsal tooth absent in female, present in male; fore femora of male swollen; metanotum closely striate medially; fore wings parallel-sided, with duplicated cilia; pelta triangular, slightly recessed into anterior margin of tergite II; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of sigmoid wing-retaining setae, tergite IX setae longer than tube; tube with straight sides, slightly shorter than head.