taxonID	type	description	language	source
03B10E6EFFAFD216D2A6FF1BFBD9517A.taxon	description	Measurements of holotype (in microns). Distended body length 870. Head, length 57; width across cheeks 88; vertex length 8 – 12. Pronotum median length 100; width 126. Metascutal median setae 11; submedian setae 16. Fore wing length 430. Antennal segments I – VIII length (width): 11 (20), 28 (21), 31 (16), 35 (15), 26 (13), 39 (13), 9 (6), 11 (5). Male unknown.	en	Mound, L. A. (2015): Genera of the Scirtothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with a new species of Siamothrips from Malaysia. Zootaxa 4021 (2): 387-394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.2.9
03B10E6EFFAFD216D2A6FF1BFBD9517A.taxon	materials_examined	Material studied. Holotype female: MALAYSIA, Perak, Pulau Pangkor, on Commersonia sp., 2 – 7. v. 2009 (Ng, Y. F.) (in CISUKM). Paratypes: 5 females collected with holotype (in CISUKM and ANIC).	en	Mound, L. A. (2015): Genera of the Scirtothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with a new species of Siamothrips from Malaysia. Zootaxa 4021 (2): 387-394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.2.9
03B10E6EFFAFD216D2A6FF1BFBD9517A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This species was first recognised in 2009 during a visit by the first author to the laboratory of Laurence Mound at CSIRO, Canberra. The species name initium, meaning “ beginning’, is in reference to that commencement of our collaborative studies.	en	Mound, L. A. (2015): Genera of the Scirtothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with a new species of Siamothrips from Malaysia. Zootaxa 4021 (2): 387-394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.2.9
03B10E6EFFAFD216D2A6FF1BFBD9517A.taxon	discussion	Comments. The colour of this new species is clearly different from that of Siamothrips argus. In contrast to the uniformly pale colour of that species, initium has several brown markings including the anterior margin of the head, the posterior area of the mesoscutum, the entire metascutum, and the base and middle area of the fore wing. Moreover, the arrangement of the metascutal median and submedian setae in a transverse straight line, and the inner markings to the reticulation on the meso- and metascutum are different from argus.	en	Mound, L. A. (2015): Genera of the Scirtothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with a new species of Siamothrips from Malaysia. Zootaxa 4021 (2): 387-394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.2.9
