Psalidothrips consimilis Okajima

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 : 36

Psalidothrips consimilis Okajima Figs 19-20, 74

Psalidothrips consimilis Okajima, 1992: 541.

Material examined.

CHINA. Guangdong: Foshan City, Suoluo Nature Reserve (22°29'N, 111°30'E), 2 females and 1 male, 27.iii.2005 (Jun Wang), 2 females and 1 male, 3.vii.2014 (Chao Zhao).

Distribution.

China (Guangdong); Japan (Ryukyu Islands).

Comments.

Described originally from Ryukyu Islands, Japan ( Okajima 1992), this thrips is here newly recorded from China. In the description ( Okajima 1992), the postocellar setae are minute, usually shorter than the diameter of the hind ocellus, but in the specimens listed here these setae are variable in length: some of them are much longer than the hind ocellus. The female (Fig. 19) is very similar to that of P. ascitus ( Okajima 1992, 2006). However, the males (Fig. 20) can be easily distinguished from P. ascitus by the narrow and incomplete pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII (Fig. 74).