Dichromothrips nakahari Mound, 1976

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

Dichromothrips nakahari Mound, 1976

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S.S.Q; individualID: 2011-X-2; individualCount: 3; sex: females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 60; Taxon : scientificNameAuthorship: Dichromothrips nakahari Mound ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Xishuangbanna (Different sites) ; decimalLatitude: 21.980492; decimalLongitude: 100.999494; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 02/10/2011; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

flowers and collected from dendrobium.

Distribution

Described from India. Recorded from China and USA.

Notes

New record for China

Diagnosis

Female macropterous; body dark brown (Fig. 17 ); head weakly prolonged in front of eyes; antennae 8-segmented, segment I without paired dorso-apical setae, III and IV with long apical neck and long forked sense-cones, III-V with some microtrichial rows on both surfaces; pronotum with two pairs of long postero-angular setae sub-equally in length; posterolateral margins of tergites with well-developed michrotrichia; metanotum weakly reticulated; abdominal tergites I-VIII without sculpture medially.

Figures

Figure 17. Female of Dichromothrips nakahari Mound, 1976.