Thrips simplex

Female body and legs dark brown, tarsi and antennal segment III yellowish brown. Head wider than long; ocellar setae pair III small, arising just inside anterior margins of ocellar triangle; postocular setae pairs I and III slightly longer than ocellar setae III, pair II minute. Pronotum with 2 pairs of posteroangular setae, external pair slightly shorter than inner pair. Metanotum reticulate medially, reticles elongate on posterior half, with faint sculptured markings inside most reticles. Forewing first vein with about 7 setae on distal half, second vein with about 14 setae. Abdominal tergite VIII posterior margin with complete but slightly irregular comb of microtrichia; pleurotergites without discal setae, sculptured with rows of coarsely ciliate microtrichia. Sternite II with 1 or 2 discal setae, III–VII with about 12 discal setae in single row; sternites III–VII each with large transverse glandular area, discal setae arising laterally. Tergite IX S1 setae arising anterior to line joining bases of S2 setae.

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