Phylladothrips Priesner

(Figs 68, 131)

Phylladothrips Priesner, 1933b: 79 . Type species: Phylladothrips karnyi Priesner, by monotypy.

All nine species listed in this genus are from Southeast Asia, with two from Taiwan, two from the Philippines, one from Malaysia, and four from Indonesia (Okajima 1988b). These species are collected from dead leaves and branches where, presumably, they are fungus feeders. They are particularly unusual in having sigmoid wingretaining setae on the eighth tergite (Fig. 68).

Diagnosis: Head a little longer than wide (Fig. 131); eyes normal, postocular setae well-developed; stylets usually retracted to postocular setae, about one third of head width apart medially; antennae 8-segmented, III with 3 sensoria, IV with 4; pronotum with 4 pairs of developed setae, am reduced, notopleural sutures incomplete; basantra present but weak; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth absent on both sexes; fore wings weakly constricted medially, without duplicated cilia; pelta hat-shaped; tergites II–VIII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae (Fig. 68); tube shorter than head; male sternite VIII without pore plate.