Eothrips Hood

(Fig. 117)

Eothrips Hood, 1915: 106 . Type species: Dolerothrips crassicornis Karny, by original designation.

Hood erected this genus without any definition or comment, but designated the type species and listed a further seven species from Java that had been described by Karny. Three of these seven have subsequently been transferred to other genera, and 13 species are now listed in Eothrips from India, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Two syntype females of crassicornis have been studied, together with one female (labelled male) from Vietnam that appears to be the same species. This species has the character states of a member of the Liothrips -lineage. It tracks to Liothrips in the key below, but has the head about as wide as long with widely spaced maxillary stylets (Fig. 117), and the major setae pale and elongate with capitate apices. The 13 species currently listed under this genus require further study in order to produce a clear definition of this genus, and to determine its validity.