Megalurothrips distalis (Karny, 1913)

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

Megalurothrips distalis (Karny, 1913)

Taeniothrips distalis Karny, 1913: 122

Physothrips brunneicornis Bagnall, 1916: 218

Taeniothrips infernalis Priesner, 1938: 472

Taeniothrips morosus Priesner, 1938: 476

Taeniothrips ditissimus Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish, 1966: 250.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.Y. J; individualID: 2017-V-21; individualCount: 26; sex: 7 males, 19 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 71; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Megalurothrips distalis ( Karny ); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Jinghong ( Mansha Village ) ; decimalLatitude: 21.643996; decimalLongitude: 101.789571; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: ( ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 21/05/2017; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

flowers, collected from Erythrina variegata L., Psidium guava and mango.

Distribution

Described from Japan and widely distributed.

Diagnosis

Female macropterous; Body dark brown (Fig. 18 ), head wider than long; eyes with five weakly-pigmented facets, ocellar setae I present, setae III elongate, presence of five pairs of postocular setae; antennae 8-segmented, segments III and IV with elongate forked sense cones, III-VI with some microtrichia on both surfaces, VI with an elongate sense cone at the base. Adult male with spear-shaped sternal discal setae.

Figures

Figure 18. Female of Megalurothrips distalis (Karny, 1913).