Belothrips Haliday

Mirab-Balou, Majid, Mound, Laurence, Goldarazena, Arturo & Negiş, İnci Şahin, 2025, The Palaearctic genus Belothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with new synonyms and new combinations, Zootaxa 5631 (2), pp. 387-394 : 389-392

Belothrips Haliday

Thrips (Belothrips) Haliday, 1836: 450 .

Type species: Thrips (Belothrips) acuminata Haliday, 1836 , by monotypy.

Nigritothrips Bhatti 1978: 96 . Syn.n. Type species Belothrips longistylosus Priesner, 1920 , by original designation.

Anaphothrips (Rubiothrips) Schliephake, 1975: 11 . Syn.n. Type species Anaphothrips ferruginea Uzel, 1895 , by original designation.

Generic diagnosis. Female fully winged. Mouth-cone moderately long, maxillary palps 3-segmented. Compound eye usually with several pigmented facets. Three pairs of minute ocellar setae, pairs I and II arranged transversely, pair III between hind ocelli; 4 pairs of postocular setae. Antennae 8-segmented, segment I without median dorsoapical setae, III and IV each with forked sense cone, III–VI usually with rows of microtrichia on both dorsal and ventral surfaces; VI usually constricted at base and well distinct from V. Pronotum without prominent setae. Mesonotum with paired anterior campaniform sensilla, median pair of setae far from posterior margin. Metascutum reticulate, usually without campaniform sensilla; median setae far from anterior margin. Metapre-episternum weakly developed, tapering distally and with one seta. Prosternal ferna undivided; basantra membranous and without setae. Spinula present on mesosternum, but absent from metasternum. Fore wing with veinal setae minute; first vein with long gap in setal row; second vein with setae irregularly spaced; posterior fringe cilia wavy. Tarsi 2-segmented. Abdominal tergites posterior margins with neither craspeda nor ctenidia; tergites II–VII with posteroangular setae usually inserted at posterior angle but sometimes further forward; tergites II–VIII with S1 setae longer than their interval; tergite VIII without posteromarginal comb; tergite IX with MD setae shorter; tergite X with median split incomplete; pleurotergites with setae in front of posterior margin; sternites posterior margins with neither craspeda nor discal setae; sternites III–VII with three pairs of posteromarginal setae, II with two pairs; II–VI with posteroangular setae usually inserted at posterior angle but sometimes further forward. Male similar to female; tergite IX without short and stout setae; sternites III–VI or VII each with an oval pore plate.

Checklist of Belothrips species

Belothrips acuminatus ( Haliday, 1836)

Belothrips ferrugineus (Uzel, 1895) comb.rev.

Belothrips galii ( Masumoto & Okajima, 2017) comb.n.

Belothrips longistylosus Priesner, 1920 comb.rev.

Belothrips morio Reuter, 1899: 45 .

Belothrips pillichi (Priesner, 1938) comb.rev.

Belothrips silvarum ( Priesner, 1920) comb.rev.

Belothrips sordidus (Uzel, 1895) comb.rev.

Belothrips tongi (Mirab-balou & Chen, 2013) comb.n.

Belothrips validus (Karny, 1910) comb.rev.

Belothrips vitalbae (Bagnall, 1926) comb.rev.

Belothrips vitis (Priesner, 1933) comb.rev.