|scientific name Chilothrips |
Conifers (Bailey, 1957).
Adults collected in January, June, and July.
The head is broad and the antennae are 8 segmented. Antennal segments 3 and 4 have forked sense cones, and the mouth cone is greatly enlarged. The pronotum is long and has only one pair of well developed epimeral setae. The mesospinasternum and metasternum are separated by a suture. The fore legs are not enlarged. The fore wings have 2 longitudinal veins with the setae on the fore vein interrupted, and the setae uniformly spread on the hind vein. Pleural plates are present on the abdomen, and the median pair of setae is placed well apart on intermediate abdominal tergites. Abdominal tergite 8 lacks a posterior comb of setae (Stannard, 1968).
There is only 1 species currently listed in this genus, and males are unknown (Chiasson, 1986).
Feeds on the pollen of conifers (Chiasson, 1986).
Alberta, Ontario (Chiasson, 1986), California, New York, Maryland, Minnesota (Bailey, 1957).
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