Astrothrips aucubae Kurosawa, 1932

Elie, Ntirenganya, Yajin, Li, Yanlan, Xie, Yanli, Zhou & Hongrui, Zhang, 2021, Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 72670-72670 : 72670

Astrothrips aucubae Kurosawa, 1932

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.Y. J & X.Y. L.; individualID: 2017-X-21 | 2017-III-10 | 2017-VIII-7; individualCount: 7; sex: 3 males, 4 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 5; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Astrothrips aucubae Kurosawa ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Menglun) ; decimalLatitude: 22.011754; decimalLongitude: 100.785957; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 10/03/2017, 07/08/2017, 21/10/2017; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from Pueraria lobata and Ficus tree.

Distribution

Described from Japan. Recorded from China ( Li et al. 2021).