Urothrips tarai (Stannard)

Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Key to the fungus-feeder Phlaeothripinae species from China (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zoological Systematics 39 (3), pp. 313-358 : 355

3.2.95 Urothrips tarai (Stannard) ( Fig. 14 )

Ananthakrishnaniella tarai Stannard, 1970: 119 .

Coxothrips tarai (Stannard) : Bhatti, 1998a: 178; Dang & Qiao, 2012: 891.

Urothrips tarai (Stannard) : Ulitzka & Mound, 2014: 595.

Specimens examined. Yunnan (Jinghong City), 5 females and 1 male from dead leaves and branches, 12 April 1997, Yun-Fa Han ( NZMC) .

Distribution. China (Yunnan), India.

Remarks. The species was recorded from China by Dang and Qiao (2012) as Coxothrips tarai (Stannard) , together with another newly recorded species C. gibberosa (Kudô) . But similarly, Urothrips tarai (Stannard) is used here following the nomenclature change by Ulitzka and Mound (2014).

Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists (31025024), the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (31272348), National Science Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Research (J1210002), and grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2014FY210200, 2014FY110100, 2013FY111200) .

Acknowledgements We are particularly grateful to Prof. Laurence A. Mound ( ANIC, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia) for giving great helps when the first author was studying in ANIC, to Prof. Xiao-Li Tong ( South China Agricultural University , Guangzhou , China) for providing convenience to check some type specimens, and to Dr. Feng-Chyi Lin ( Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute , Taichung) and Mr. Ban-Suo Duan (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region , China) for loaning out the thrip specimens. We are also thankful to Dr. Xing-Min Wang ( South China Agricultural University , Guangzhou , China) and his colleagues for their warm helps during checking specimens in SCAU. Many thanks also are due to Cai-Ping Liu and Fen-Di Yang for making microscope slides .

Figures

Figs 13–16. Head and pronotum. 13. Urothrips gibberosa. 14. Urothrips tarai. 15. Deplorothrips acutus. 16. Deplorothrips medius.