Asianthrips orientalis Okajima

Okajima, Shuji & Masumoto, Masami, 2022, The genus Asianthrips an Oriental fungus-feeding phlaeothripine (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 5124 (2), pp. 101-138 : 125

Asianthrips orientalis Okajima

( Figs 17–18 , 101–108 )

Asianthrips orientalis Okajima, 2006: 187–190 .

A good number of females and males of A. orientalis have been known from Southern Japan (Ishigaki and Iriomote Islands, the Ryukyus) and Taiwan, and both macropterous and micropterous forms are known in both sexes. Bicolourous abdomen of this species is unique in the genus. The fifth to eighth adominal segments are somewhat yellowish in contrast with brown anterior segments ( Figs 17 & 18 ).

Figures

FIGURES 11–22. Asianthrips species. A. magnus, 11–12; (11) Female (mac); (12) Female (mic). A. malayanus, 13–14; (13), Female (mac); (14) Non-paratypic female (mic). A. nobilis, 15–16; (15) Female (mac); (16) Female (mic). A. orientalis, 17–18; (17) Female (mac); (18) Male (mic). A. pallens, 19–20; (19) Female (mac); (20) Male (mic). A. parvinotus, 21–22; (21) Female (mac); (22) Male, non-paratype (mic).

FIGURES 101–108. Asianthrips orientalis, female.(101) Head (mac); (102) Head (mic); (103)Antenna(mac); (104)Metanotum (mac); (105) Pelta & tergite II (mac); (106) Metanotum–tergite II (mic); (107) Mesopresternum (mac); (108) Tube (mac).