Astrothrips chisinliaoensis Chen, 1980

Li, Yajin, Mound, Laurence A., Xie, Yanlan & Zhang, Hongrui, 2021, Species of Astrothrips from China, with one new species and a list of plant associations (Thysanoptera, Panchaetothripinae), Zootaxa 4920 (2), pp. 267-277 : 271

Astrothrips chisinliaoensis Chen

( Figs 7 , 11 , 18, 25 )

Described from Taiwan Province, on Morus leaves ( Chen 1980), this species was subsequently recorded from Malaysia ( Kudo 1995) and is here recorded from Hainan and Yunnan Provinces of southern China. The apically expanded setae on tergite X ( Fig. 7 ) are unique to A. chisinliaoensis among species of Astrothrips , but curiously are also found in the related Tryphactothripini species, Elixothrips brevisetis (Bagnall) ( Kudo 1992) .

Material studied. CHINA, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna tropical botanical garden, 2 females from Pronephrium sp., 11.iii.2017 (Zhang Hong-rui, Li Ya-jin); 2 females from Lasiococca comberi , 31.v.2018 (Li Ya-jin) ( YNAU) ; 1 female from Achyranthes bidentata , 26.v.2018 (Li Ya-jin) ( ANIC) . Hainan Province, Jianfengling, 3 females, 1 male from Brucea javanica , 27.vi.2018 (Xie Yan-lan); Haikou City, Jinniuling , 4 females, 3 males from Cinnamomum camphora , 1 female, 1 male from Hamelia sp., 3.x.2018 (Xie Yan-lan); Haikou Geopark , 3 females, unknown, 8.x.2018 (Xie Yan-lan) ( YNAU) .

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Astrothrips species. 1–4 A. glanduculus sp.n (1) Female; (2) Male; (3) Abdominal tergites VII–X of male; (4) Abdominal sternites V–VII of male. 5–6 globiceps. (5) Abdominal sternites IV–VII of male; (6) Abdominal tergites VIII–X of female; (7) Abdominal tergites VIII–X of chisinliaoensis; (8) Abdominal tergites VI–VII of glanduculus.

FIGURES 9–16. Head and pronotum of Astrothrips species. (9) aucubae; (10) globiceps; (11) chisinliaoensis (12) strasseni; (13) tumiceps; (14) Pronotum of glanduculus (variant); (15) glanduculus; (16) asiaticus.

FIGURES 17–26. Astrothrips species. 17–18, 20–22. Meso-metanotum of Astrothrips species (17) strasseni; (18) chisinliaoensis; (19) Antennae of aucubae; (20) aucubae; (21) tumiceps; (22) glanduculus; (23) Fore wing of glanduculus; 24–26 Antennae of Astrothrips species (24) glanduculus; (25) chisinliaoensis; (26) strasseni.