Heptathrips Moulton 1942

Heptathrips Moulton This genus currently comprises eight species worldwide, five from New Zealand, two Africa (Mound 2007) and one from Saudi Arabia. The species of this genus can be identified by these character states: adults macropterous or apterous; head elevated in mid-line, longer than wide; stylets deeply retracted and close together; po setae small; antennae 7-segmented (if 8-segmented then VII broadly joined to VIII); segments III–IV each with 2 sense cones (rarely one on segment III); pronotum with notopleural sutures complete; prosternal basantra absent; fore tarsus of female with a forwardly-directed tooth arising near inner apical margin; median tergites each with 1 pair of wing-retaining setae, but these sometimes reduced (Mound & Walker 1986).