Helionothrips cephalicus Hood, 1954

Elie, Ntirenganya, Yajin, Li, Yanlan, Xie, Yanli, Zhou & Hongrui, Zhang, 2021, Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 72670-72670 : 72670

Helionothrips cephalicus Hood, 1954

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.Y. J. & Z.H. R; individualID: 2017-iii-11; individualCount: 5; sex: 2 males, 3 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 14; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Helionothrips cephalicus Hood ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla ( Tropical Forest ) ; decimalLatitude: 22.109802; decimalLongitude: 100.87078; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: ( ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 11/03/2017; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from Anacardiaceae and Poaceae .

Distribution

Described from Japan and recorded from China (Sichuan, Taiwan and Yunnan).

Diagnosis

Female fully winged; body dark brown (Fig. 8 ); head wider than long, strongly reticulate, not projecting in front of eyes; ocellar region elevated, occipital ridge present; two pairs of postocular setae; maxillary palps 2-segmented; antennal segment II prominently darker than VI; male pore glands on sternite VIII only.

Figures

Figure 8. Female of Helionothrips cephalicus Hood, 1954.