Mymarothrips garuda Ramakrishna & Margabandhu, 1931

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

Mymarothrips garuda Ramakrishna & Margabandhu, 1931

Mymarothrips garuda Ramakrishna & Margabandhu, 1931: 1031

Mymarothrips bolus Bhatti, 1967: 3. Synonymised by Mound and Marullo (1998)

Mymarothrips flavidonotus Tong & Zhang, 1995: 39.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.H; individualID: 2019-VII-17; individualCount: 2; sex: females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020Tt1; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Mymarothrips garuda Ramakrishna & Margabandhu; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna; locality: Mengla (Menglun), Jinghong ; verbatimCoordinateSystem: 21°39'35.16''N, 101°25'43.56''E; decimalLatitude: 30.3427; decimalLongitude: 119.4338; Identification: identifiedBy: Liu Hui; dateIdentified: 2019; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 17/07/2019; Record Level: collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

small arthropods.

Distribution

Described from India and recorded in southern China.

Diagnosis

Female macropterous, body yellowish-brown (Fig. 2 ), reddish pigments on abdominal segments 3-6, yellow median longitudinal stripe extending from ocellar region to the base of abdomen, cheeks brown; pronotum brown with reddish alongside the yellow median region; head longer than wider; prothorax broader than longer; fore wings with an abroad transversal colourless patch with grey before apex.

Figures

Figure 2. Female of Mymarothrips garuda Ramakrishna & Margarbandhu, 1931.