Phibalothrips rugosus Kudo, 1979

Elie, Ntirenganya, Yajin, Li, Yanlan, Xie, Yanli, Zhou & Hongrui, Zhang, 2021, Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 72670-72670 : 72670

Phibalothrips rugosus Kudo, 1979

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: E.N. & Z.H. R; individualID: 2018-viii-2 | 2018-v-3; individualCount: 6; sex: 2 males, 4 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 23; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Phibalothrips rugosus Kudo ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 21.919882; decimalLongitude: 101.191583; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 03/05/2018, 02/08/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves, collected from Poaceae and bamboo.

Distribution

Described from Malaysia and recorded from Japan and China (Xishuangbanna).

Notes

Newly recorded for China.

Diagnosis

Female macropterous; body bicoloured (Fig. 10 ), head and thorax dark brown and constricted behind eye, abdomen yellow; legs and antennal segments III-V yellow; fore wing slender, uniformly pale or a little darker at base, with no long setae; antennae 6-segmented, V-VII form single unit; sensoria on III and IV slender, each with one simple sensorium. Male similar to female, but smaller, without pore plate at sternites III-VII. The distinctive feature of this genus is an elongated head that is strongly irregular, circular reticulated and constricted behind the eyes.

Figures

Figure 10. Female of Phibalothrips rugosus Kudo, 1979.