Azaleothrips formosae Okajima & Masumoto, 2014

Dang, Lihong, Li, Yaya, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Gexia, 2023, The Oriental fungus-feeding genus Azaleothrips Ananthakrishnan, 1964 from China with one new species and four new records (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae, Phlaeothripinae), ZooKeys 1183, pp. 219-231 : 219

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1183.113182
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10170598
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scientific name	Azaleothrips formosae Okajima & Masumoto, 2014
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Specimens studied.

China - Yunnan • 1♀ (SNUT); Puer, Zhenyuan; on dead leaves; 8.vii.2022; Yanqiao Li leg. • 1♂ (SNUT); Lincang, Cangyuan; on dead leaves; 8.vi.2021; Xia Wang & Chengwen Li leg. • 1♂ (ANIC); Kunming; on bamboo grass; 24.ix.2019; Laurence Mound leg.

Comments.

This species was described on many specimens, including types and non-types, from Taiwan that were collected on dead branches. A female and two males from Yunnan are identified as A. formosae because they show no difference in their morphology. However, they differ in their coloration; the female has the prothorax largely yellow, like non-paratypic specimens from Kenting National Park (Taiwan), and one male has a brownish prothorax (Fig. 15 View Figures 15–18 ), slightly paler than the head, and all femora yellowish brown with the apical quarter pale; the other male has a pale prothorax, like the paratypes. Moreover, the pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII is a little broader in the Yunnan specimens (Fig. 27 View Figures 24–30 ), but S2 setae on tergite IX are pointed at the apex, as in the types.