Streptothrips Priesner

(Fig. 96)

Streptothrips Priesner, 1932: 58 . Type species: Streptothrips mirabilis Priesner, by monotypy.

There are 10 species listed in this genus, and these have been found in various parts of the tropics and subtropics living on dead branches (Okajima 1981). Two species are described from Indonesia, and one of these, tibialis Priesner, is here recorded from Guangxi, China.

Diagnosis: Head much longer than wide; postocellar and postocular setae long and bluntly pointed; mouthcone short and rounded, stylets deeply retracted into head, close together medially; antennae 8-segmented (Fig. 96), VIII long, slightly constricted basally, III and IV broad, each with 4–12 short stout sensoria; pronotum reduced to a shield, with 2 pairs of epimeral setae, notopleural sutures complete; basantra weak; mesopresternum reduced or absent; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth stout in both sexes, mid- and hind tibiae with apical spurlike stout setae; fore wings, if present, with duplicated cilia; pelta broad, posterior margin eroded, sometimes into three plates; tergites without wing-retaining setae; tube shorter than head, anal setae about 1.5 times as long as apical width of tube; sternite VIII with a series of long, stout posteromarginal setae; male sternite VIII without pore plate.