Ctenothrips
Creators: name: Xie, Yonghui
name: Zhang, Hongrui
name: Li, Zhengyue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Ctenothrips

description: Key to world species of Ctenothrips
(*placed in key from description)
1. Antennal segments uniformly dark brown or brown.......................................................... 2
-. Antennal segments III–V yellow in part................................................... 3
2. Female macropterous; antennal segments dark brown; abdominal tergites I–VII hexagonally reticulate [Nepal].. niger Kudo *
-. Female brachypterous; antennal segments brown; abdominal tergites V–VII with extremely faint reticulation, smooth in about posterior half; VII smooth [northern India]....................................................... smilax Bhatti *
3. Pronotum smooth, almost without sculpture................................................................. 4
-. Pronotum striate or weakly sculptured, never smooth......................................................... 9
4. Antennal segment III shaded; pronotum posterior margin with 3 pairs of setae [Taiwan]......... kwanzanensis Takahashi *
-. Antennal segment III yellow; pronotum posterior margin with 2 pairs of setae...................................... 5
5. Forewings base slightly darker [Sichuan]...................................................... cornipennis Han*
-. Forewings base slightly paler or grey...................................................................... 6
6. Interocellar setae usually shorter than anterior margins of ocellar triangle, placed near posterior margin of posterior ocelli [N.E. America].............................................................................. bridwelli Franklin
-. Interocellar setae longer than anterior margins of ocellar triangle, and placed between posterior ocelli................... 7
7. Mesonotum without polygonally reticulate sculpture; abdominal sternite VII with posteromarginal setae arising anterior to posterior margin [Shaanxi]................................................ taibaishanensis Feng, Zhang & Wang *
-. Mesonotum with polygonally reticulate sculpture (Fig. 4); abdominal sternite VII with posteromarginal setae situated in a row along posterior margin (Fig. 8)........................................................................... 8
8. Antennal segments III–IV yellow; forewings grey; abdominal tergite X with polygonally reticulate sculpture [Hubei]....................................................................................... leionotus Tong & Zhang*
-. Antennal segments III and basal half of IV–V yellow (Fig. 2); forewings yellow with base slightly paler (Fig. 9); abdominal tergite X with elongate reticulate sculpture (Fig. 7) [Guizhou]................................... guizhouensis sp. n.
9. Interocellar setae just behind ocellar triangle; pronotum distinctly striate [Taiwan].................. transeolineae Chen *
-. Interocellar setae within ocellar triangle; pronotum with light colored dots or weekly striate.......................... 10
10. Antennal segment III yellowish brown; pronotum with light colored dots [N.E. America]................. frosti Moulton*
-. Antennal segment III yellow; pronotum weakly striate....................................................... 11
11. Head not constricted just behind eyes; antennal segment III–V yellow. Forewings long, about 3 times the length of antennae [Europe]................................................................................. distinctus Uzel *
-. Head constricted just behind eyes; antennal segment III yellowish brown with yellowish base and apex, V brown with yellowish base; forewings short, a little longer than antennae [Japan].............................. nonnae Haga & Okajima*
description: Published as part of Xie, Yonghui, Zhang, Hongrui & Li, Zhengyue, 2011, A new Ctenothrips from southwestern China (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), pp. 65-68 in Zootaxa 2926 on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277968