Hoplothrips fungosus Moulton, 1928

Mound, Laurence A. & Wang, Jun, 2020, Hoplothrips species recorded from China (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), with one new species from Yunnan, Zootaxa 4758 (3), pp. 596-599 : 597

Hoplothrips fungosus Moulton

There are specimens from China labelled as this species by Han Yunfa in the Beijing collection, and these are similar to specimens studied from northern Australia ( Mound et al. 2020). However, one slide labelled as this species has been studied from the collection of Tong Xiaoli, Guangdong. Although this female has prosternal basantra present, it has no sculpture in the ocellar region, tergite IX is brown, and the tube is longer than in typical members of fungosus . This specimen possibly represents yet another species in this complex.