Psalidothrips consimilis Okajima Figs 19-20, 74

Psalidothrips consimilis Okajima, 1992: 541.

Material examined.

CHINA. Guangdong: Foshan City, Suoluo Nature Reserve (22°29'N, 111°30'E), 2 females and 1 male, 27.iii.2005 (Jun Wang), 2 females and 1 male, 3.vii.2014 (Chao Zhao).

Distribution.

China (Guangdong); Japan (Ryukyu Islands).

Comments.

Described originally from Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Okajima 1992), this thrips is here newly recorded from China. In the description (Okajima 1992), the postocellar setae are minute, usually shorter than the diameter of the hind ocellus, but in the specimens listed here these setae are variable in length: some of them are much longer than the hind ocellus. The female (Fig. 19) is very similar to that of P. ascitus (Okajima 1992, 2006). However, the males (Fig. 20) can be easily distinguished from P. ascitus by the narrow and incomplete pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII (Fig. 74).