Liothrips mirabilis (Schmutz)

Dang, Lihong, An, Yiyan, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Gexia, 2024, Leaf-feeding species of the genus Liothrips from China (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae), Zootaxa 5419 (1), pp. 53-84 : 69

Liothrips mirabilis (Schmutz)

( Figs 10 , 41 , 43 )

Gynaikothrips mirabilis Schmutz, 1913: 1041 .

This species was described from Peradenya, Sri Lanka on Pavetha hispida and also from rolled leaf margins of a pepper plant. No specimens have been studied from China, but the species is included here as a potential pest of Piper plants growing throughout Southern China. It was recorded living in marginal leaf galls of Piper nigrum in Sri Lanka, and L. karnyi is listed as a synonym. It is similar to L. pallipes with all tibiae yellow and antennal segments III–VIII uniformly yellow ( Fig. 41 ), but they can be distinguished by above key.

Specimens studied. SRI LANKA, Peradeniya , syntype male on Pavetha hispida , 11.ii–5.v.1902, H. Karny ( SMF) .

Figures

FIGURES 9–14. Heads and pronotum. Liothrips species (9–13): (9) brevis sp. n.; (10) mirabilis; (11) longistylus sp. n.; (12) populi sp. n.; (13) piceae sp. n. (14) Teuchothrips turkestanicus.

FIGURES 22–41. Antennae of Liothrips species. (22) adusticornis; (23) brevis sp. n.; (24) fagraeae; (25) hagai; (26) minys; (27) pallipes; (28) piperinus; (29) populi sp. n.; (30) setinodis; (31) elongatus sp. n.; (32) mohanrami; (33) rohdeae; (34) wasabiae; (35) piceae sp. n.; (36) heptapleuricola; (37) miyazakii; (38) longistylus sp. n.; (39) tibetanus sp. n.; (40) vaneeckei; (41) mirabilis.

FIGURES 42–46. Pronotum of Liothrips species. (42) adusticornis; (43) mirabilis; (44) wasabiae; (45) elongatus sp. n.; (46) mohanrami.