Panchaetothrips bifurcus Mirab-balou & Tong, 2016

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

Panchaetothrips bifurcus Mirab-balou & Tong, 2016

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: X.Y. L & E.N; individualID: 2018-Vi-2; individualCount: 9; sex: 3 males, 6 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 20; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Panchaetothrips bifurcus Mirab-balou & Tong; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla ( Tropical Rain Forest ) ; decimalLatitude: 21.914651; decimalLongitude: 101.186983; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: ( ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 02/06/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves, collected from Poaceae , Cornaceae , blackberries, ferns and Pueraria .

Distribution

Described from Hainan, distributed from Guangdong and Jiangxi Provinces, China.

Diagnosis

Female fully winged; body dark brown (Fig. 9 ); head longer than wide, strongly reticulate, not projecting in front of eyes; two pairs of postocular setae; maxillary palps 2-segmented. Antennae 8-segmented, segment I without paired dorso-apical setae; III and IV with simple sense cones or forked, IV with or without extra simple sense cone. Pronotum transversely reticulate, no long setae; mesonotum reticulate without anteromedian campaniform sensilla.

Figures

Figure 9. Female of Panchaetothrips bifurcus Mirab-balou & Tong, 2016.