Anaphothrips sudanensis Trybom

Cui, Yanze, Xi, Jinghui & Wang, Jun, 2017, The genus Anaphothrips with one new species from China (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), ZooKeys 668, pp. 49-59 : 52

Anaphothrips sudanensis Trybom Figs 21-24

Anaphothrips sudanensis Trybom, 1911: 1; Zhang and Tong 1992: 73.

Description.

Macropterous female. Body bicolored (Fig. 23), generally brown but abdominal segments III–V yellow; antennal segments I–II and V–VIII brown, segments III–IV yellow; legs yellow; fore wing pale but with dark cross band close to base. Head wider than long slightly. Antennae 8-segmented (Fig. 22), segments III–IV with forked sense cone. Pronotum weakly sculptured. Fore wing upper vein with six basal setae and five distal setae, lower vein with six setae; Abdominal tergite VIII (Fig. 21) posterior margin with comb of long microtrichia.

Macropterous male. Similar to female, but stergites III–VIII with large C-shaped pore plate (Fig. 24).

Distribution.

China (Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan); worldwide in tropical and sub-tropical countries.

Specimens examined.

1 female (macropterous), China, Guangdong Province, Guangning, Baoding mountain, 16.vii.2014, from Pelargonium hortorum (Zhaohong Wang). 1 male (macropterous), China, Guangdong Province, Guangning, Baoding Mountain, 16.vii.2014, from Phyllanthus urinaria (Zhaohong Wang).

Key to Chinese species of Anaphothrips

(* not examined)