Astrothrips tumiceps Karny, 1923

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

Astrothrips tumiceps Karny, 1923

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: X.Y. L & Z.H. R; individualID: 2018-vi-1 | 2017-iii-11; individualCount: 7; sex: 1 male, 6 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 10; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Astrothrips tumiceps Karny ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Menglun) ; decimalLatitude: 22.004755; decimalLongitude: 100.922522; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 11/03/2017, 01/06/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from Moringa and Smilacaceae .

Distribution

Described from Indonesia. Recorded from India, Philippines, northern Australia and China.

Diagnosis

This species differs from A. asiaticus by antennae with 5 to 7 segments; metanotum triangle of reticulation sharply defined; mesonotum anterior third fully divided with no sculptured reticulate connection (Fig. 6 ); male with no sternal pore plates.

Figures

Figure 6. Female of Astrothrips tumiceps Karny, 1923.