Phylladothrips pictus Okajima

Figs 5, 8, 10

Phylladothrips pictus Okajima, 1988: 717.

Material examined.

Holotype, ♀ (TUA), China, Taiwan, Pintung Hsien, Kenting National Park, on dead leaves, 19.iii.1984 (S. Okajima); paratypes, 1♀ 1♂ (TUA and SMF), with the same data as holotype; 1♀ (TUA), Japan, Yokohama, Tomioka, on dead fronds of Trachycarpus sp., 22.ix.2019; 6♀ 2♂ (TUA), Japan, Ryukyu and Izu Islands, 26.x.1985 and 4.iv.1990 (S. Okajima); 1♀ 2♂ (SNUT), China, Guangxi, Chongzhou, Fusui County, on dead branches, 7.viii.2021 (X. Wang).

Comments.

Described from Kenting National Park, Taiwan, on dead leaves and branches and recorded from subtropical and temperate Japan (the Ryukyu Islands, Izu Islands and Honshu) on dead twigs, some type-specimens of this species were collected with P. pallidus . They are closely similar to each other in the bicolored body, but they can be distinguished by the shape of the postocellar setae, as indicated in the key, also the different color patterns, with head (Fig. 8) and abdominal tergite I brown in P. pictus but yellow in P. pallidus . One female and two males from Guangxi, China are exactly the same as the holotype and paratype specimens on loan from SMF and TUA, and this is the first record of this species from China. Phylladothrips pictus is also similar to the new species from Malaysia, but the differences between them are discussed under the comments of this new species.