Azaleothrips moundi Okajima

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2015, Fungus-feeding Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae of the Idiothrips genus-group in Australia, with nine new species, Zootaxa 4034 (2), pp. 325-341 : 329

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:43A9BB87-D5E4-4AEA-8955-152AE3A843A3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3513026

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D787DA-FFB1-911D-9AC4-FF55FEC9FDB7

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Plazi

scientific name

Azaleothrips moundi Okajima
status

 

Azaleothrips moundi Okajima View in CoL

Azaleothrips moundi Okajima, 1976: 19 View in CoL ; Okajima & Masumoto, 2014: 332 View Cited Treatment .

The two males listed below are identified as this species with some hesitation. They are both hemimacropterous, with wings 200 microns long and almost as long as the pterothorax width, also the pelta is bell-shaped and thus more typical of macropterae. In contrast, the micropterae of moundi View in CoL from its previously known distribution in southern Japan and Taiwan have wings that are 100 microns long and the pelta broadly oval. There are slight differences in the body sculpture between the two specimens from Australia and those from Asia, but the observed wing morph differences suggest that it is not sensible to describe these two males as a distinct species. Among the 37 species of Azaleothrips View in CoL now known, only moundi View in CoL and perniger View in CoL have only two sense cones on both antennal segments III and IV, and segments VII and VIII are particularly closely joined.

Material studied. Australia, Queensland, Redlynch, Crystal Creek, 2 males from Macaranga lvs, 5.xi.2008 (LAM5191).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Phlaeothripidae

Genus

Azaleothrips

Loc

Azaleothrips moundi Okajima

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J. 2015
2015
Loc

Azaleothrips moundi

Okajima 2014: 332
Okajima 1976: 19
1976
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