Murphythrips Mound & Palmer

(Fig. 77)

Murphythrips Mound & Palmer, 1983b: 431 . Type species: Murphythrips legalis Mound & Palmer, by monotypy.

Only one species, described from Singapore, is included in this genus. It is presumably a fungus-feeding species, and like some Urothripini species it is rather depressed dorsoventrally.

Diagnosis: Body tuberculate, with broadly expanded setae; head about as long as wide (Fig. 77); eyes reduced to 3 ommatidia, 2 pairs of postocular setae broadly expanded; stylets retracted to eyes, close together medially, nearly touching; antennae 5-segmented, morphological segments III–V completely fused; pronotum with many setae broadly expanded, notopleural sutures reduced; basantra absent; mesopresternum small; fore tarsal tooth absent in female, present in male; usually apterous; tergite I transvers, broadly fused to II; tergites II–VII without wing-retaining setae; tube encircled by a transverse furrow medially, anal setae shorter than tube; male sternite VIII without pore plate.