Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus Hood, 1919

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

Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus Hood, 1919

Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus Hood, 1919: 94

Rhipiphorothrips Karna Ramakrishna, 1928: 252.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: W.Q.L; individualID: 1998-ix-22; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 25; Taxon : scientificNameAuthorship: Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus Hood ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 21.926454; decimalLongitude: 101.254249; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 22/09/1998; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from grape.

Distribution

Described from India and recorded from China (Xishuangbanna).

Diagnosis

Female macropterous; body dark brown (Fig. 11 ), antennae and legs largely yellow, fore wing pale with yellow veins; Head with complex irregular sculpture, cheeks sharply incut behind eyes and constricted to basal neck; antennae 8-segmented, segments III & IV with simple sensorium; VIII more than twice as long as VII. Pronotum without long setae; mesonotum with complete longitudinal division, metanotum with well developed reticulate triangle with a pair of minute setae near posterior and a pair of campaniform sensilla. Fore wing rounded at apex with 2 slender cilia; Abdominal tergites III-VIII with grooved medially, with 1 pair of strong median setae; tergites strongly sculptured laterally. Male similar to the female, but smaller with small circular pore plate on anterior margin of sternites III-VII.

Figures

Figure 11. Female of Rhipiphorothrips cruentacus Hood, 1919.