Trichromothrips antidesmae Li, Li & Zhang, 2019

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

Trichromothrips antidesmae Li, Li & Zhang, 2019

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.H & K.B; individualID: 2017-X-24 | 2017-III-12 | 2017-III-10; individualCount: 7; sex: 2 males, 5 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020Tt112; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Trichromothrips antidesmae Li, Li & Zhang; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 21.959907; decimalLongitude: 100.463502; Identification: identifiedBy: Li Yajin; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 10/03/2017, 12/03/2017, 24/10/2017; Record Level: collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from antidesma.

Distribution

Described from China (Xishuangbanna) ( Li et al. 2019).

Diagnosis

Female macropterous; body and legs yellow (Fig. 20 ), head and pronotum with dark lateral margin, antennal segments I-II brown, III-V yellow with the apex brown, VI-VII brown, VIII pale brown; fore wing brown with apex pale, clavus brown; abdominal tergites with transverse striae laterally, tergites II-VII with three setae arranged in a straight line. Male generally similar in structure and colour similar to female, sternites without pore plates.

Figures

Figure 20. Female of Trichromothrips antidesmae Li, Li & Zhang, 2019.