Thrips brevistylus (Priesner)

Ng, Y. F. & Mound, L. A., 2020, Character state variation among species of Thrips genus (Thysanoptera) in Malaysia, with one new species and two new records, Zootaxa 4852 (2), pp. 239-245 : 242-243

Thrips brevistylus (Priesner)

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Described in the genus Taeniothrips , this species was recognised by Palmer (1992) as a member of “Group V” in the genus Thrips . It is unusual in having the pair of median setae on the metanotum arising closer together than to the lateral pair ( Fig. 13 ), a condition shared with one other species in “Group V”. However, the males of T. pavettae are brown ( Palmer 1992), whereas the males of T. brevistylus are bicoloured ( Reyes 1994). Originally from Java, T. brevistylus was later recorded from Philippines ( Reyes 1994) and is here recorded for the first time from Peninsular Malaysia. Females are uniformly dark, with the fore wings, legs and antennae dark except for segment III that is pale. Males have the body bicolored, with the head, thorax and legs pale, abdominal segments I–VII dark medially, and VIII–X dark.

Specimens studied. MALAYSIA, Kuala Lumpur, Universiti Malaya Campus , 6 males from? Aristolochia sp., 9.vii.2014 (Ng, Y.F.) (in Centre for Insect Systematics, UKM, Malaysia) .

Figures

FIGURES 13–15. Thrips brevistylus (13) Meso- and metanotum; Thrips subnudula (14) Pronotum, meso- and metanotum, (15) abdominal stenites III–VI.