Gigantothrips gallicola (Priesner)

Dang, Lihong, Mound, Laurence & Zhang, Hongrui, 2023, Review of the genus Gigantothrips Zimmermann from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae, Phlaeothripinae), ZooKeys 1169, pp. 221-234 : 221

Gigantothrips gallicola (Priesner)

Figs 2 , 5

Syringothrips gallicola Priesner, 1933: 77.

Material examined.

Holotype, 1♀ (SMF), Indonesia, Java, in leaf-gall of Sloanea sp., 26.iii.1925.

Comments.

Described from Java, Indonesia, this species represented a new genus, ' Syringothrips ', based on only a female originally. After checking the holotype female (on loan from the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt), it was considered to be a member of Gigantothrips and related to G. nigrodentatus from Java ( Dang et al. 2014). However, G. gallicola was found in the leaf-galls of Sloanea sp. whereas G. nigrodentatus has been found breeding on the leaves of Planchonia valida . This species is also similar in body colour and shape to G. tibetanus sp. nov., but they can be distinguished by means of couplet 7 in the key.

Figures

Figures 1 - 6. Gigantothrips spp. Head and pronotum (1, 2) 1 G. tibialis 2 G. gallicola; head, pronotum and fore leg (3) 3 G. pontis; tergite IV (4) 4 G. xynos; tergites IX-X (5, 6) 5 G. gallicola 6 G. xynos.