Octurothrips Priesner 1931

Octurothrips Priesner Octurothrips Priesner, 1931: 93. Type species Octurothrips pulcher Priesner. Known only from Australia, the single species in this genus has been found widely in the inland arid zone of the eastern part of this continent (Figs 41–42). Although all of the available specimens are apterae, the species shares many character states with Habrothrips curiosus, including the abdominal tergites with a groove down the midline. However, the head is remarkable with greatly enlarged, almost holoptic. compound eyes, with the genae extending forward laterally around the eyes, and the prosternal basantra large and transverse.Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., Lima, Élison Fabrício B. & O'Donnell, Cheryle A., 2023, What is a genus-interpreting structural diversity among species of urothripine Phlaeothripinae (Thysanoptera), pp. 91-102 in Zootaxa 5319 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/818221