Thrips hawaiiensis (Morgan)

Masumoto, Masami & Okajima, Shûji, 2013, Review of the genus <i> Thrips </ i> and related genera (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Japan, Zootaxa 3678 (1), pp. 1-65 : 35-36

Thrips hawaiiensis (Morgan)

( Figs. 130–136 )

Euthrips hawaiiensis Morgan, 1913: 3 .

This species shares most character states with T. coloratus but is always uniformly dark on abdominal segments and antennal segment III yellow in female, and has metascutum with median pair of setae at anterior margin ( Fig. 132 ) and antennae often 8-segmented ( Fig. 131 ). However, in male these species can be distinguished from each other by position of metascutal median setae. Moreover, T. florum Schmutz that is widespread in tropical areas is very similar to hawaiiensis . However, in T. florum , the mesonotum is smooth around the anteromedian CPS, subapical seta on the fore wing clavus is longer than apical seta, fourth seta on fore wing is distinctly longer than fifth seta and male has tergite IX with S2 setae much shorter than S1 setae, whereas the mesoscutum is sculptured throughout, the apical seta on the clavus is longer than the subapical seta, fourth seta on fore wing ( Fig 133 ) is subequal length to fifth seta and male has tergite IX with S2 setae subequal length to S1 setae ( Fig. 135 ) in T. hawaiiensis ( Bhatti, 1999; Nakahara, 1985).

This species is distributed throughout Japan and is one of the most common flower-living species. It is widespread in the Oriental region to Australia, Hawaii, Africa and the New World.

Figures

FIGURES 130–142. Thrips species. T. hawaiiensis, female 130–134: (130) Head & pronotum; (131) Antenna, right; (132) Metascutum; (133) Fore wing, right; (134) Tergites VIII–X. T. hawaiiensis, male 135–136: (135) Tergites IX–X, sculpture omitted; (136) Sternite VI, sculpture omitted. T. malloti from Taiwan, female 137–142: (137) Head & pronotum; (138) Antennal segments III–VII, right; (139) Metascutum; (140) Tergite VIII. T. malloti from Taiwan, male 141–142: (141) Tergite IX, sculpture omitted; (142) Sternite VII, sculpture omitted.