Podothrips lucasseni ( Krueger )

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 lucasseni ( Krueger) Figs 2 , 17

Phlaeothrips lucasseni Krüger, 1890: 105.

Remarks.

Described from Java on sugar cane, and widely distributed in Asia, this is the only Podothrips from China that is uniformly brown ( Fig. 17 ). P. hawaiiensis from Hawaii and P. oryzae from Thailand were placed as synonyms of P. lucasseni by Ritchie (1974). This species was recorded by Okajima (1986) from China (Taiwan), and a female and a male from Guizhou Province have been examined here.

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 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.