Amomothrips associatus (Priesner, 1938)

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

Amomothrips associatus (Priesner, 1938)

Taeniothrips associatus Priesner, 1938: 483.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: X.Y. H; individualID: 2011-IX-30; individualCount: 6; sex: 2 males, 4 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 40; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Amomothrips associatus (Priesner); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 21.962539; decimalLongitude: 100.446218; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 30/09/2011; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

flowers and collected from Alpinia vittata ( Zingiberaceae ).

Distribution

Described from Malaysia and China (Yunnan Province).

Diagnosis

Female fully-winged; body dark brown (Fig. 16 ), all legs brown, except yellow apicals of tibia and tarsi; antenna segments I-II dark brown, III brown with apex light brown, segments IV-VIII brown; fore wing brown, head longer than wider with sculpture, close striates behind eyes, cheeks slightly constricted; antenna 8-segmented, segment I without dorso-apical setae, III & IV with long and forked sensoria, III with pedicel; pronotum wider than long, sculptured with close transverse striations with four pairs of posteromaginal setae. Male similar to female, but smaller.

Figures

Figure 16. Female of Amomothrips associatus (Bhatti, 1978).