Thrips subnudula (Karny)

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 : 51

Thrips subnudula (Karny)

( Figs. 214–217 )

Ramaswamiahiella subnudula Karny, 1926: 208 .

This species is unique in the genus by having more than 10 posteromarginal setae on abdominal sternites III to VI ( Fig. 216 ). According to Mound & Masumoto (2005), females have 6 posteromarginal setae on abdominal sternite VII and the male has narrow transverse pore plates on sternites III to V, but in the specimens studied here females have 7 or 8 posteromarginal setae on sternite VII and a male has pore plates on sternites III to VII ( Fig. 217 ). This species is distributed in India, Pakistan, Australia (Queensland) and Nigeria, and is newly recorded from Ryukyus, Japan.

Specimens examined. JAPAN: Ryukyus, Okinawa Pref., Yonaguni-jima Is., 17 females, 1 male on Fabaceae , 15-xii-2004, K. Minoura ( TUA) .

Figures

FIGURES 207–222. Thrips species. T. simplex, female 207–211: (207) Head & pronotum; (208) Antenna, right; (209) Metascutum; (210) Tergite V & pleurotergite, left side; (211) Tergite VIII. T. simplex, male 212–213: (212) Tergite IX; (213) Sternite VII, sculpture omitted at right side. T. subnudula, female 214–216. (214) Head & pronotum, sculpture omitted at left side of pronotum; (215) Metascutum; (216) Abdominal sternites VI–VII, sculpture omitted at right side. (217) T. subnudula, male, abdominal sternite VII, sculpture omitted. T. sukki, female 218–222: (218) Head & pronotum, sculpture omitted at right side of pronotum; (219) Antenna, right; (220) Metascutum. T. sukki, male 221–222: (221) Tergites VIII–IX; (222) Sternite VII.