Myopothrips Priesner

(Fig. 142)

Myopothrips Priesner, 1940: 405 . Type species: Myopothrips symplocobius Priesner, by monotypy.

The only species in the genus was described from Java, Indonesia, from a single female. It is considered to belong to the Liothrips -lineage, because antennal segment III has one sensorium and segment IV has three sensoria, also the basantra are absent on the prosternum.

Diagnosis: Head a little longer than wide, with convex cheeks; postocular setae short and stout; maxillary stylets one-third of head width apart, retracted to postocular setae; antennae 8-segmented, VIII weakly constricted at base, III with 1 sensorium, IV with 3; pronotum with setae epim and pa long and pointed, am setae minute, aa and ml short and stout, notopleural sutures complete; fore tarsal tooth absent in female, fore tibia with sharply curved, pointedtooth on inner apex (Fig. 142), fore femora swollen; fore wings with duplicated cilia; pelta broadly triangular; tergites with 2 pairs of long, curved (not sigmoid) wing-retaining setae; tergite IX setae about 0.8 as long as tube; tube about as long as head, anal setae shorter than tube.