Odontothrips loti (Haliday)

Hu, Qing-Ling, Mirab-Balou, Majid, Chen, Xue-Xin & Feng, Ji-Nian, 2012, A new species and two new synonyms from China in the genus Odontothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 3259, pp. 58-63 : 62

Odontothrips loti (Haliday)

Odontothrips qinlingensis Feng & Zhao, 1994: 1 . syn. n.

Odontothrips yinggeensis Feng & Zhang, 2000: 36 . syn. n.

No European specimens of this species have been studied, the identification being based on descriptions in Stannard (1968: 328), Han (1997: 242-244), Mirab-balou & Chen (2011: 946), Moritz et al. (2001), Pitkin (1972), and zur Strassen (2003). The holotype and paratypes of O. qinglingensis and O. yinggeensis were re-examined. O. qinglingensis was compared originally with O. biuncus John but is here considered a synonym of O. loti because of the following character states: fore tibial apex ventrally with claw-like process near outer margin and a seta-bearing tubercle near inner margin; fore tarsus with a small tubercle on inner margin; tergites IV–VIII with no sculpture mesad of setal pair S2; fore wing uniformly brown except a pale basal band. O. yinggeensis was compared originally with O. qinglingensis , and no further differences could be found except for the numbers of the setae on the fore wing, and the shading of the dark bands on the anterior margin of the abdominal tergites. However, these are considered to represent intra-specific variation within O. loti .

Material studied. CHINA: holotype female, 1 paratype female of O. qinglingensis , from Castanea mollissima , 19.vii.1988; holotype female, 1 paratype females of O. yinggeensis , host plant unknown, 20.viii.1998. Shaanxi Province, Taibai Mountain, 4 females from alfalfa, 12.vii.2002, Gui-Ling Zhang ( NWAFU); Hubei Province, Fang County, 1 female from legume plants, 31.vii.2001, Gui-Ling Zhang ( NWAFU); Ningxia Province, Liupan Mountain, Fengtai tree farm, 2230m, 40 females, 5 males from Medicago falcata , 6.vii.2008, Jian-Wu Zheng ( NWAFU); Shandong Province, Tai Mountain, Nantianmen, 1500m, 3 females from legume plants, 30.vii.1988, Ji-Nian Feng ( NWAFU); Shanxi Province, Wutai Mountain, 3.viii.2006, 4 females, 5 males, Fu-Zhen Guo ( NWAFU); Hebei Province, Weichang, Jiangjiadian, 12.viii.2006, 1 female, Fu-Zhen Guo ( NWAFU); Inner Mongolia, Helan Mountain, Halawu, 2232m, 1 female from legume, 13.viii.2010, Qing-Ling Hu ( NWAFU); Inner Mongolia, Helan Mountain, Ganshuwan, 1996m, 1 female from Elaeagnus angustifolia , 19.viii.2010, Qing-Ling Hu ( NWAFU).