Podothrips sasacola Kurosawa

Dang, Li-Hong, Zhao, Le, Wang, Xia & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2019, Review of Podothrips from China (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), with one new species and three new records, ZooKeys 882, pp. 41-49 : 41

Podothrips sasacola Kurosawa Figs 5 , 9 , 11 , 21

Podothrips sasacola Kurosawa, 1940: 100.

Remarks.

Previously known only from Japan, this species is quite similar to P. bicolor in the body colour pattern - head, pronotum, and abdominal segments VIII–X brown. Specimens are identified here as P. sasacola have antennal segments III–IV each with two sense cones ( Fig. 9 ), and the fore tibia with a distinct inner apical tubercle ( Fig. 5 ) as described by Okajima (2006). This species is recorded here for the first time from China, Sichuan, based on five males taken from reeds.

Figures

Figures 1 - 6. Podothrips species head, pronotum & fore legs 1 P. femoralis sp. nov. 2 P. lucasseni 3 P. luteus (from Okajima 1978) 4 P. odonaspicola 5 P. sasacola 6 P. semiflavus.

Figures 7 - 16. Podothrips species. 7 - 10 Antenna 7 P. femoralis sp. nov. 8 P. odonaspicola 9 P. sasacola 10 P. semiflavus. 11, 12 Base of forewing 11 P. sasacola 12 P. femoralis sp. nov. Some important features of P. femoralis sp. nov. 13 mesopresternum 14 Pelta 15 abdominal tergites IV-V 16 abdominal tergites IX-X.

Figures 17 - 22. Podothrips adult colour patterns 17 P. lucasseni 18 P. odonaspicola 19 P. semiflavus 20 P. femoralis sp. nov. 21 P. sasacola. Some important features of femoralis sp. nov. 22 mesopresternum and metathoracic sternopleural sutures. Scale bars: 200 microns.