Karnyothrips antennalis Okajima

Okajima, Shûji & Masumoto, Masami, 2025, Review of the genus Karnyothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) from Asia between India and Japan, Zootaxa 5578 (1), pp. 1-82 : 22

Karnyothrips antennalis Okajima

Karnyothrips antennalis Okajima, 2006: 383–384 .

This species was described based on three females and two males collected from Okinawa Is., the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, together with a non-paratypic female from Amami Is., and they were found on dead leafy branches. It has a sub-basal swelling on antennal segment III, and is apparently somewhat similar to the type-species of the genus Priesneria from Australia, P. kellyana Bagnall , but has three sense cones on antennal segment IV.

Diagnosis. Brown species; femora brown, tibiae yellow, shaded with brown medially; antennal segments I–II and IV–VIII brown, IV–VI gradually darkened distally, segment III yellow. Antennal segment III with sub-basal swelling; segments III and IV with one (0+1) and three (1+2) sense cones respectively. Maxillary stylets about one-third of head width apart. Notopleural sutures complete; mesopresternum not divided, narrowly boat shaped; prospinasternum small. Tergite IX S1 setae expanded, shorter than tube, S2 pointed, almost as long as tube, or a little shorter. Tube a little longer than 0.6 times as long as head; terminal setae about 1.7 times as long as tube.

Specimens-examined. Japan, holotype females and paratype females and males (see Okajima 2006, p. 384).