Copidothrips octarticulatus (Schmutz, 1913)

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

Copidothrips octarticulatus (Schmutz, 1913)

Heliothrips (Parthenothrips) octarticulata Schmutz, 1913: 993

Copidothrips formosus Hood, 1954: 190

Mesostenothrips kraussi Stannard & Mitri, 1962: 211.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.Y. J & X.Y. L.; individualID: 2017-X-25 | 2018-v-31 | 2018-vi-1; individualCount: 27; sex: 1 male, 26 female; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 12; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Copidothrips octarticulatus ( Schmutz ); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla ( Tropical Forest ) ; decimalLatitude: 21.973654; decimalLongitude: 100.942069; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: ( ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 25/10/2017, 01/05/2018, 31/05/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from asparagus and ferns.

Distribution

Described from Sri Lanka. Recorded from Taiwan, Gilbert Island, Kiribati, Seychelles, Thailand, northern Australia and southern China.

Diagnosis

Female fully winged; body yellowish-brown (Fig. 7 ), pterothorax darker laterally; antennal segments I, III-V and basal half of VI yellow, II, VII and apex of VI brown; tarsi and tibiae yellow; fore wing brown with transverse white bands sub-basally, medially and at the apex; head with cheeks convex and constricted at base; ocellar region elevated; antennae 8-segmented, III and IV with simple sensorium, VIII twice as long as VII. Pronotum with six pairs of large setae.

Figures

Figure 7. Female of Copidothrips octarticulatus (Schmutz, 1913).