Araliacothrips daweishanensis Li, Li & Zhang, 2018

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

Araliacothrips daweishanensis Li, Li & Zhang, 2018

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: X.Y. L; individualID: 2019-v-16; individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 3; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Araliacothrips daweishanensis Li , Li & Zhang; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Menghai ; decimalLatitude: 19.1167; decimalLongitude: 109.05; Identification: identifiedBy: Elie N. & Li Yajin; dateIdentified: 2019; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 16/05/2019; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from Ranunculaceae and Polypodiaceae (ferns).

Distribution

Described from Xishuangbanna ( Li et al. 2018b) and distributed from southern China.

Diagnosis

Female fully winged; body dark brown and strongly reticulate (Fig. 4 ); cheeks parallel, constricted behind eyes; maxillary palps 2-segmented; compound eyes with 6 weakly pigmented facets; ocellar setae pair I present, pair III on anterolateral margins of the ocellar triangle; antennae 8-segmented, III and IV with long apical neck, III with sense cone long and forked, IV with one forked and one simple sense cone, VI constricted at base, VIII longer than VII; pronotum reticulated with small setae. Identification details are in the provided link.

Figures

Figure 4. Male of Araliacothrips daweishanensis Li, Li & Zhang, 2018.