Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard, 1901)

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

Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard, 1901)

Physopus rubrocincta Giard, 1901: 264 | Heliothrips (Selenothrips) decolor Karny, 1911: 179 | Heliothrips (Selenothrips) mendax Schmutz, 1913: 994

Brachyurothrips indicus Bagnall, 1926: 98.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.Y. J; individualID: 2017-x-24; individualCount: 4; sex: females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 27; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Menglun) ; decimalLatitude: 21.937451; decimalLongitude: 101.257842; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 24/10/2017; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from Rosaceae .

Distribution

Described from Sri Lanka and recorded in West Papua, Indonesia, India, China and widely distributed from Subtropical zone.

Diagnosis

Both sexes macropterous; female about 1.2 mm in length (Fig. 13 ); dark brown to black body underlain by red pigment chiefly in the first three abdominal segments; the anal segments retain a reddish-black colour and the wings are dark, male similar to female, but smaller.

Figures

Figure 13. Female of Selenothrips rubrocinctus Giard, 1901.