Mycterothrips Trybom 1910
Creators: name: Singha, Devkant
name: Patidar, Abhishek
name: Kumar, Vikas
name: Tyagi, Kaomud
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Mycterothrips

description: Key to Indian species of Mycterothrips (based on original description).   
1. Female............................................................................................. 2  
-. Male............................................................................................... 9  
2. Tergite II with three lateral marginal setae.................................................................. 3  
-. Tergite II with four lateral marginal setae.................................................................. 4  
 3. Mouth cone long and slender and reaching to the mesosternum; tergite IX without campaniform sensilla........... acaciae   
 -. Mouth cone short and rounded; tergite IX with posterior pair of campaniform sensilla..................... nainiae sp. n.   
4. Sternites III–VII without discal setae...................................................................... 5  
-. Sternites III–VII with more than one pair of discal setae....................................................... 7  
 5. Tergites IX without campaniform sensilla............................................................... ricini   
-. Tergites IX with campaniform sensilla..................................................................... 6  
 6. Body uniformly dark brown..................................................................... consociatus   
 -. Body yellow with brown markings............................................................... nilgiriensis   
 7. Tergite IX with only posterior campaniform sensilla................................................. chaetogastra   
-. Tergite IX with both anterior and posterior campaniform sensilla................................................ 8  
 8. Fore wings banded with subapical pale and sub-basal dark bands........................................ setiventris   
 -. Fore wings without bands, uniformly slightly shaded……...................................... ……..…..… auratus   
 9. Hypomere not dilated at apex (fore wing banded)..................................................... setiventris   
-. Hypomere expanded at apex........................................................................... 10  
 10. Tergite X without campaniform sensilla................................................................ ricini   
-. Tergite X with posterior campaniform sensilla............................................................. 11  
11. Antennal segment VI more than 1.0 times as long as the collective length of segments I–V.......................... 12  
-. Antennal segment VI less than 0.7 times as long as the collective length of segments I–V........................... 13  
 12. Antennal segment VI more than twice as long as the total length of segments I–V........................ chaetogastra   
 -. Antennal segment VI less than 1.5 times or as long as the total length of segments I–V..... auratus, consociatus, nilgiriensis   
 13. Discal setae present on sternite VIII.................................................................. acaciae   
 -. Discal setae absent on sternite VIII............................................................. nainiae sp. n.
description: Published as part of Singha, Devkant, Patidar, Abhishek, Kumar, Vikas & Tyagi, Kaomud, 2021, A new species of Mycterothrips Trybom (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India with new record of the genus Paithrips Nonaka & Jangvitaya, pp. 135-140 in Zootaxa 5048 (1) on page 136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5549295