Bamboosiella cingulata (Hood)

Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2016, Species of the Poaceae-associated genus Bamboosiella (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) from China, with three new species, Zootaxa 4184 (3), pp. 541-552 : 544

Bamboosiella cingulata (Hood)

( Figs 3 , 30 , 48 )

Zygothrips cingulata Hood, 1919: 80 .

Watsoniella latiaureus Girault, 1927: 1 .

Haplothrips (Hindsiana) sakimurai Moulton, 1937: 413 . Antillothrips graminatus Stannard, 1957: 36 .

Xenothrips opacus Ananthakrishnan & Kudo, 1974: 117 .

This species was originally described from Queensland, Australia, and the four synonyms, W. latiaureus , H. sakimurai , A. graminatus and X. opacus , were from Queensland ( Australia), Hawaii ( USA), Florida ( USA) and Bangkok ( Thailand) respectively. Okajima (1995a) was responsible for the new combination, Bamboosiella cingulata , based on a few specimens including three females from Taiwan that are the only specimens of cingulata known from China so far.

Material studied. AUSTRALIA, Queensland: 1 female from grass tussock, 25.viii.2004, B. Kranz ; 1 female from Ipomoea & Passiflora , 18.xi.2009, A. Wells; 1 female from Leptochloa , 16.xi.2009, L.A. Mound; 1 female from Lepturus , 16.vi.2010; 1 female from grass, 13.xii.1995, L.A. Mound; Northern Territory : 2 females from grasses, 24.xii & 2.i.1996, L.A. Mound. NEW CALEDONIA , 1 female from grass, 21.xii.1998, L.A. Mound; 1 female from Oryza & Crotalaria , 16.iv.2012, L.A. Mound.

Distribution. China ( Taiwan), Thailand, Japan, the United States, Australia, New Caledonia.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. Head, pronotum & fore legs: 1. bicoloripes; 2. fasciata; 3. cingulata; 4. flavescens; 5. nayari; 6. exastis.

FIGURES 29 – 46. Antenna: 29. bicoloripes; 30. cingulata; 31. flavescens; 32. varia. Mesopresternum: 33. bicoloripes; 34. fasciata; 35. flavescens; 36. semiflava; 37. magnus sp. n.; 38. longisetis sp. n.; 39. antennatus sp. n. Base of fore wing: 40. bicoloripes; 41. fasciata; 42. flavescens; 43. semiflava; 44. magnus sp. n.; 45. longisetis sp. n.; 46. antennatus sp. n.

FIGURES 47 – 54. Tergites IX – X of female: 47. bicoloripes; 48. cingulata; 49. fasciata; 50. flavescens; 51. nayari; 52. varia; 53. magnus sp. n.; 54. longisetis sp. n.