Filicopsothrips pulcher Li, Yuan & Zhang, 2020

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

Filicopsothrips pulcher Li, Yuan & Zhang, 2020

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.H & E.N; individualID: 2018-v-21; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020Tt31; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Filicopsothrips pulcher Li, Yuan & Zhang; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna; locality: Mengla (Menglun) ; decimalLatitude: 21.911298; decimalLongitude: 101.285581; Identification: identifiedBy: Li Yajin; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 21/05/2018; Record Level: collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from grasses ( Poaceae ).

Distribution

Described from China (Xishuangbanna) ( Li et al. 2020).

Diagnosis

Female fully winged, body bicoloured (Fig. 15 ); head brown laterally and at anterior, white medially; antennal segments I-IV brown, V-IX paler, VI with sense cone on basal half; pronotum shaded on lateral margins, with two longitudinal brown markings laterally; abdominal tergites paler; fore wing brown and all legs paler.

Figures

Figure 15. Female of Filicopsothrips pulcher Li, Yuan & Zhang, 2020.