Psalidothrips lewisi (Bagnall)

Zhao, Chao, Zhang, Hongrui & Tong, Xiaoli, 2018, Species of the fungivorous genus Psalidothrips Priesner from China, with five new species (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), ZooKeys 746, pp. 25-50 : 41

Psalidothrips lewisi (Bagnall) Figs 23-24, 76

Trichothrips lewisi Bagnall, 1914: 30.

Psalidothrips alaris Haga, 1973: 76. Synonymised by Okajima and Urushihara 1992: 167.

Psalidothrips lewisi (Bagnall): Okajima and Urushihara 1992: 167.

Comments.

This species has a wide geographical range from Shandong province to Hainan province in China. The Chinese specimens listed here have been compared with the Japanese specimens (provided by S. Okajima) and, despite antennal segments III–VIII of the Japanese specimens being almost uniformly yellow and much paler than the Chinese specimens (Figs 23-24), they are considered to represent P. lewisi . Moreover, the macropterous form in both sexes is more common than the apterous form among the Chinese specimens.

Distribution.

China (Shandong, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hainan); Japan.