Pygmaeothrips angusticeps (Hood)

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 : 332

3.2.82 Pygmaeothrips angusticeps (Hood) ( Figs 47 , 73 )

Trichothrips angusticeps Hood, 1908: 367 .

Pygmaeothrips columniceps Karny, 1920: 40 . Synonymised by Mound & Marullo, 1996: 353.

Specimens examined. Singapore (MacRitchie Reservior), 1 female from dead twigs, 20 April 2006, L.A. Mound ( ANIC) .

Distribution. China (Taiwan), India, Singapore, Haiwaii, Indonesia, USA, Argentina, Australia.

Remarks. The species, P. columniceps Karny , which was recorded from Taiwan, China based on one macropterous female by Kudô (1974), was synonymised as P. angusticeps Hood by Mound and Marullo (1996). No Chinese specimen of this species is checked here. We illustrated here based on one female from Singapore identified by L.A. Mound.

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.