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Zootaxa. 2021 Feb 25;4938(1):zootaxa.4938.1.8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.8.
The Anaphothrips genus-group is a complex of 40 genera of Thripinae that share the condition of "no long pronotal setae". In traditional Thysanoptera classifications this absence of long pronotal setae was interpreted as a plesiomorphy by comparison to the condition in Aeolothripidae. Thus Jacot-Guillarmod (1974) catalogued all Thripinae genera with species showing this condition in a sub-tribe Aptinothripina Karny, a long-established arrangement that had been adopted by many authors. However, a study by Buckman et al. (2013) confirmed that taxa in the families Merothripidae and Melanthripidae share an important number of structural plesiomorphies, and these taxa all have long pronotal setae. From this it is concluded that absence of long pronotal setae is a derived condition, and moreover this loss apomorphy has arisen independently within several unrelated genera, such as Dichromothrips, Trichromothrips and Thrips (Mound Palmer 1981; Mound Masumoto 2004, 2005). As a result, it is possible that the Anaphothrips genus-group does not represent a single lineage, and that not all of the included genera are closely related.
长盾蓟马属群是缨翅目蓟马亚目 40 个属的一个复杂类群，它们具有“无长前胸刚毛”的特征。在传统的缨翅目分类中，与 Aeolothripidae 相比，这种无前胸长刚毛的特征被解释为一种原始特征。因此，Jacot-Guillarmod（1974）在一个长期存在的安排中，将所有具有这种特征的蓟马属群归入一个亚科 Aptinothripina Karny，这种安排被许多作者采用。然而，Buckman 等人（2013）的研究证实，缨翅目和缨翅目科的分类群具有许多重要的结构原始特征，而这些分类群都具有长前胸刚毛。由此可以得出结论，无前胸长刚毛是一种衍生特征，而且这种缺失的独特性是在几个不相关的属中独立产生的，如双斑蓟马属、三色蓟马属和蓟马属（Mound Palmer 1981；Mound Masumoto 2004，2005）。因此，长盾蓟马属群可能不代表一个单一的谱系，而且并非所有包含的属都是密切相关的。
