Biltothrips Bhatti (Figs 33–38) Biltothrips Bhatti, 1973: 438. Type species Sericothrips minutus Bhatti 1967, by monotypy The only species in this genus shares many character states with Scirtothrips, but is distinguished as follows: absence of a pair of setae in front of the first ocellus (ocellar setae pair I); absence of mid-dorsal seta on antennal segment II; absence of setae on fore wing second vein; lateral position of tergal setal pair S1 that arise close to S2 and to the lateral microtrichial fields (Fig. 36). The only known species in this genus was described from both sexes collected in West Bengal, India (Bhatti 1967). Subsequently, specimens were collected on the SOCIETY ISLANDS in the Pacific Ocean (Hoddle et al. 2008), one female from Bangkok, THAILAND, is available in ANIC, Canberra, and the species is here recorded from MALAYSIA, Pahang, Pulau Tioman, 4 females 3 males collected on Cassava leaves, 8.vii.2013 (Ng, Y.F.), (in CISUKM and ANIC).

Published as part of Ng, Y. F., Mound, L. A. & Azidah, A. A., 2014, The genus Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Malaysia, with four new species and comments on Biltothrips, a related genus, pp. 253-266 in Zootaxa 3856 (2) on page 265, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4929897