Podothrips semiflavus Hood

Dang, Li-Hong, Zhao, Le, Wang, Xia & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2019, Review of Podothrips from China (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), with one new species and three new records, ZooKeys 882, pp. 41-49 : 41

Podothrips semiflavus Hood Figs 6 , 10 , 19

Podothrips semiflavus Hood, 1913: 67.

Remarks.

Described from Puerto Rico, America on Panicum leaves, this species is recorded from Egypt and Uganda by Ritchie (1974), with P. aegyptiacus Priesner placed as a synonym. This is one of two species from China in which the thorax is yellow ( Fig. 19 ), but P. luteus from Taiwan has abdominal segments VIII–X brown, whereas the abdomen of P. semiflavus is almost yellow with just the basal third of the tube brown ( Fig. 19 ). One female from Guangdong has been studied here, and this is the first record of the species from China.

Figures

Figures 1 - 6. Podothrips species head, pronotum & fore legs 1 P. femoralis sp. nov. 2 P. lucasseni 3 P. luteus (from Okajima 1978) 4 P. odonaspicola 5 P. sasacola 6 P. semiflavus.

Figures 7 - 16. Podothrips species. 7 - 10 Antenna 7 P. femoralis sp. nov. 8 P. odonaspicola 9 P. sasacola 10 P. semiflavus. 11, 12 Base of forewing 11 P. sasacola 12 P. femoralis sp. nov. Some important features of P. femoralis sp. nov. 13 mesopresternum 14 Pelta 15 abdominal tergites IV-V 16 abdominal tergites IX-X.

Figures 17 - 22. Podothrips adult colour patterns 17 P. lucasseni 18 P. odonaspicola 19 P. semiflavus 20 P. femoralis sp. nov. 21 P. sasacola. Some important features of femoralis sp. nov. 22 mesopresternum and metathoracic sternopleural sutures. Scale bars: 200 microns.