Megalothrips andrei Mound & Palmer 1983

Megalothrips andrei Mound & Palmer Megalothrips andrei Mound & Palmer, 1983: 78. M. andrei was described from Peninsular Malaysia based on 2 females and 1 male. Unfortunately, the specimens from Peninsular Malaysia including the type series have not been available in this study. The text figure (see Fig. 318 in Mound & Palmer 1983) shows that the notopleural suture is vestigial that means both noto-epimeral suture and noto-episternal suture are almost completely lost (cf. Fig. 102). The anterior line in the pleural area of the figure in Mound and Palmer (1983) is probably not the noto-episternal suture, but it is probably the pleural suture (= the suture between episternum and epimeron), because of the relative position of the midlateral pronotal setae which is situated far from this suture. This condition of the suture is very similar to that of M. curvidens (Fig. 102; see Fig. 32C in Okajima, 2006).