Bradythrips zhangi Wang & Tong

Tong, Xiaoli & Zhao, Chao, 2017, Review of fungus-feeding urothripine species from China, with descriptions of two new species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 4237 (2), pp. 307-320 : 310

Bradythrips zhangi Wang & Tong

( Figs 5 , 9–12 )

Bradythrips zhangi Wang & Tong, 2007: 298 .

Specimens examined. Type specimens (Holotype and paratypes in SCAU). Other specimens: China, Guangdong province, Gaozhou City , Mt. Sanguanshan (21°55'10"N, 111°8'40"E), 2 females and 2 males collected from leaf litter of Acacia auriculiformis (Leguminosae) , 5.ix.2015 (Zhaohong Wang).

Distribution. China (Guangdong).

Comments: This apterous species is characterized by the head having one pair of elongate anterior cephalic setae ( Figs 5 , 9 ), and about 15 pairs of major setae expanded at apex on the dorsal surface (about 6 pairs of setae near cheeks); antenna 7-segmented ( Fig. 10 ); pronotal epimeral setae well-developed, meta-epimeron bulging with one well developed seta ( Fig 11 ); mesoeusternum anterior margin entire, mesothoracic furcae united together medially, but metathoracic furcae widely separated ( Fig. 12 ); tube with 2 pairs of elongate setae subequal in length, about 2.7 times as long as tube.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. Habitus of female: (1) Stephanothrips austrinus sp. n.; (2) S. japonicus Saikawa; (3) S. kentingensis Okajima; (4) S. occidentalis Hood & Williams; (5) Bradythrips zhangi Wang & Tong; (6) Habrothrips curiosus Ananthakrishnan

FIGURES 7 – 12. (7) head of Habrothrips curiosus; (8) antenna of H. curiosus; (9) head of Bradythrips zhangi; (10) antenna of B. zhangi; (11) meso- and metanotum of B. zhangi; (12) pterothorax of B. zhangi, ventral view.