Gigantothrips nigrodentatus (Karny)

Dang, Lihong, Mound, Laurence & Zhang, Hongrui, 2023, Review of the genus Gigantothrips Zimmermann from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae, Phlaeothripinae), ZooKeys 1169, pp. 221-234 : 221

Gigantothrips nigrodentatus (Karny)

Figs 7 , 11 , 23 , 30

Acanthinothrips nigrodentatus Karny, 1913: 120.

Material examined.

1♀ 1♂ (ANIC), Indonesia, Java, on curled leaves of Planchonia valida , 30.x.1973, L.A. Mound .

Comments.

This species was described originally from Java, Indonesia, but was considered a member of Idolothripinae within the invalid genus ' Cercothrips ' because of the large size body (Hood, 1919). After comparing the type specimens, the species was identified as belonging to the Phlaeothripinae as a species of Gigantothrips by Mound (1968). A female and a male are studied here, taken on Planchonia valida in Java by Mound in 1973. It is similar to G. yunnanensis sp. nov. in body sculpture and the colour pattern of legs, but they can be differentiated in the above key.

Figures

Figures 7 - 14. Head and pronotum. Head (7 - 10) 7 G. nigrodentatus 8 G. yunnanensis sp. nov. 9 G. elegans 10 G. tibetanus sp. nov.; pronotum (11 - 14) 11 G. nigrodentatus 12 G. elegans 13 G. yunnanensis sp. nov. 14 G. tibetanus sp. nov.

Figures 15 - 25. Gigantothrips spp. Antennal segments III-IV (15 - 17) 15 G. elegans 16 G. tibetanus sp. nov. 17 G. yunnanensis sp. nov.; metanotum and pelta (18) 18 G. elegans; meso and metanotum (19, 20) 19 G. tibetanus sp. nov. 20 G. yunnanensis sp. nov.; pelta (21, 22) 21 G. tibetanus sp. nov. 22 G. yunnanensis sp. nov.; tegite IV (23, 24) 23 G. nigrodentatus 24 G. tibetanus sp. nov.; tegite III (25) 25 G. elegans.

Figures 26 - 33. Gigantothrips spp. Tergites VIII-IX (26, 27) 26 G. pontis 27 G. xynos; pore plate on male sternite VIII (28 - 30) 28 G. yunnanensis sp. nov. 29 G. tibetanus sp. nov. 30 G. nigrodentatus; right side of male sternite VII (31) 31 G. tibetanus sp. nov.; tergite IX and tube (32, 33) 32 G. tibetanus sp. nov. 33 G. yunnanensis sp. nov.