Okajimathrips kentingensis (Okajima)

Okajima, Shûji & Masumoto, Masami, 2025, Some Poaceae-inhabiting Phlaeothripinae (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) in East Asia, with descriptions of six new genera and 18 new species, Zootaxa 5726 (1), pp. 1-68 : 29-30

Okajimathrips kentingensis (Okajima)

( Figs 105–107 )

Podothrips kentingensis Okajima, 1986: 713 .

O. kentingensis was described from southern Taiwan under the genus Podothrips ( Okajima, 1986) based on eight females and five males taken from grass tussocks. The species was obtained together with several females and males of Podothrips luteus Okajima. Previously , it has been recorded only from Taiwan, but it is here recorded from bamboo in southern Thailand and Vietnam. The specimens listed below from Thailand and Vietnam are indistinguishable from the type series, and all of them are taken from bamboo .

Specimens examined. Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkhen, Campus of Kasetsart University , NBCRC, on bamboo , 13 females and 4 males, 28.vii.1987, 44 females and 20 males, 11.i.1988, SO; data very similar to above, 145 females and 139 males, 22.viii.1990, TN & SO; 13 females and 10 males, Phuket Is., Gu gu suri Road , on bamboo, 24.viii.1991 , TN & SO; Phuket Is., Rawai Beach, on bamboo, 13 females and 2 males, 26.viii.1991, 6 females and 5 males, 15.ix.1992, TN & SO; 1 female, Nakornprathom, Puttamonton , on bamboo, 18.ix.1991 , P. Jangvitaya. Vietnam, 7 females and 5 males, Ho Chi Minh, on bamboo, 12.ix.2018 , K. Minoura.

Figures

FIGURES 94–107. Okajimathrips species. O. borealis sp. nov. 94–104: (94 & 95) whole body; (96 & 97) head; (98) mouth cone, female; (99) fore leg, female; (100) prothoracic notopleural suture, female; (101) prosternum and mesopresternum, female; (102) tube, female; (103) sternite VIII, male; (104) antennal segments III–VIII, female. O. kentingensis 105–107: (105) whole body; (106) head, female; (107) antennal segments III–VIII, female.