Habrothrips curiosus Ananthakrishnan

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 : 311

Habrothrips curiosus Ananthakrishnan

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Habrothrips curiosus Ananthakrishnan, 1967: 138 .

Specimens examined. China, Guangdong, Guangzhou City, Longdong Forest Park (23°14'N, 113°24'E), 1 female collected from leaf litter, 30.ix.2007 (Jun Wang).

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Taiwan); India, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia.

Comments: This species was described from southern India in 1967, and recorded later from Australia ( Mound 1972), Thailand ( Kudô 1978), Taiwan ( Chen 1980) and Malaysia (Dang et al. 2014). It is here newly recorded from mainland China. This specimen has the head strongly prolonged in front of the eyes, with a pair of prominent setae with expanded apices near eyes ( Fig. 7 ); antennae 8-segmented ( Fig. 8 ), segment III with 2 sense cones, IV with 3 sense cones; pronotal epimeral setae well-developed; meta-epimeron with one well-developed seta; fore wings slender but strongly tuberculate on basal third ( Fig. 6 ); abdominal tergite IX elongate, much longer than head, but slightly shorter than tube. Mound (1972) pointed out that the number of sense cones on segment III varies from 1–2 ( Mound 1972).

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.