Mastigothrips Priesner *

Mastigothrips Priesner, 1932: 53 . Type species: Mastigothrips karnyianus Priesner, by monotypy.

Only two species are recognised in this genus that is a member of the Plectrothrips genus-group. One species was described from Fiji, and the other from Indonesia, but these are possibly different forms of a single species, as indicated by Okajima (1981).

Diagnosis: Head longer than wide, slightly produced in front of eyes; eyes large, postocular well-developed; stylets short, reaching one third of head, close together; antenna 8-segmented, campaniform sensorium on basal half of segment II, VIII elongate, III–IV with sensoria stout; pronotum stout, major setae reduced, notopleural suture complete; basantra reduced or absent, ferna large, fused together medially; mesopresternum reduced; fore tarsus with a stout tooth, fore femora with a basal hump on inner margin, mid and hind tibiae with 2 spur-like setae; fore wing with duplicated cilia; pelta irregular, with pair of lateral wings and slender median lobe; posterior margin of sternite VIII without teeth; tergites without sigmoid wing-retaining setae; tube shorter than head, anal setae much shorter than tube.