Generic diagnosis

Female macropterous. Head long with large eyes; maxillary palps 3-segmented; ocellar setae pair I absent, III long and arising within the triangle on the tangent between the anterior margins of the posterior ocelli; 5 pairs of postocular setae, pair III unusually long. Antennae 8-segmented, segment I with paired dorso-apical setae; III and IV with forked sense cone; III–VI with microtrichial rows on both surfaces. Pronotum without sculpture, narrowed at anterior angles; posterior margin with one pair of setae, 2 pairs of posteroangular setae. Mesonotum with anterior campaniform sensilla; median setae arise in front of margin. Metanotum irregularly reticulate, median setae near anterior margin; campaniform sensilla present. Fore wing first vein setal row discontinuous, second vein row continuous; clavus with 5 veinal and one discal setae. Prosternum without discal setae, ferna broad and not divided, prosternal spinasternum broad. Mesosternum and metasternum with spinula. Mid and hind tarsi 2-segmented. Tergites II–VII without craspeda or ctenidia; VIII with long, regular comb; IX with anterior campaniform sensilla; X with almost complete longitudinal split. Sternite VII with only 2 pairs of marginal setae.
Male not known.

Biological data

Nothing is known of the biology of this thrips

Distribution data

Described from a single female collected in Java, five females were subsequently collected in Southern China (Zhang et al. 2018).

Nomenclatural data

Moundinothrips Bhatti, 1999: 9. Replacement name for Moundothrips Bhatti, 1995: 65 [homonym of Moundothrips Wilson, 1975], type species Moundothrips robustus Bhatti, 1995, by monotypy.

Only one species is recognised in this genus (ThripsWiki 2020), and this is recorded from China:

robustus (Bhatti, 1995: 66) (Moundothrips)

Relationship data

Thripidae sub-family Thripinae: this is a diverse group involving more than 230 genera. In general appearance the single species in this genus looks very like a member of Taeniothrips, but the first antennal segment has a pair of dorso-apical setae, the posterior margin of the pronotum bears a single pair of setae, and the posterior margin of sternite VII has only two pairs of setae.

References

Bhatti JS (1995) Moundothrips, a new genus of Thripidae from Java, Indonesia (Insecta: Terebrantia). Zoology (Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology) 5: 65–72.

Bhatti JS (1999) Notes on Thysanoptera. Thrips 1: 6–9.

ThripsWiki (2020). ThripsWiki - providing information on the World's thrips. <http://thrips.info/wiki/Main_Page>

Zhang SM, Wang ZH, Li YJ & Mound LA (2018) One new species, two generic synonyms and eight new records of Thripidae from China (Thysanoptera). Zootaxa 4418 (4): 370–378.