Strepterothrips orientalis Ananthakrishnan, 1964

Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Key to the fungus-feeder Phlaeothripinae species from China (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zoological Systematics 39 (3), pp. 313-358 : 354

3.2.89 Strepterothrips orientalis Ananthakrishnan ( Figs 48 , 75 )

Strepterothrips orientalis Ananthakrishnan, 1964a: 118 ; Chen, 1980: 178.

Specimens examined. Australia (Queensland), 7 females and 1 male from dead wood, 16 November 2009, L.A. Mound ( ANIC) .

Distribution. China (Taiwan), India, Australia.

Remarks. This species was described by Ananthakrishnan (1964) from India, and recorded from Taiwan, China based on one female (Chen, 1980). In this study, seven females and one male from Australia identified by L.A. Mound are examined in ANIC, but no specimen is found in NZMC.

Figures

Figs 45–48. Head and pronotum. 45. Stephanothrips kentingensis. 46. Stephanothrips occidentalis. 47. Pygmaeothrips angusticeps. 48. Strepterothrips orientalis.

Figs 67–76. Antenna. 67. Oidanothrips frontalis. 68. Plectrothrips crassiceps. 69. Preeriella armigera. 70. Psalidothrips amens. 71. Psalidothrips lewisi. 72. Psephenothrips leptoceras. 73. Pygmaeothrips angusticeps. 74. Stephanothrips kentingensis. 75. Strepterothrips orientalis. 76. Streptothrips tibialis.