Sophiothrips annulatus Okajima.

Mound, Laurence A., Matsunaga, Janis N., Bushe, Brian, Hoddle, Mark S. & Wells, Alice, 2017, Adventive Thysanoptera Species in the Hawaiian Islands: New Records and Putative Host Associations, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 49, pp. 17-28 : 23

Sophiothrips annulatus Okajima.

Four female and two male apterae, also two female macropterae and one female hemimacroptera, were taken on Maui in July 2016, from dead branches at Iao Valley, and on the trail to Waihee Ridge. In contrast to two paratype female apterae of annulatus that have been studied, these specimens have the femora and tibiae more extensively yellow, and the antennae are slightly longer ( Fig. 9 ). The pelta of the apterae varies amongst the six available specimens, from rectangular with small lateral wings to almost as rounded as on the paratypes from Okinawa ( Okajima 1994).

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Figures 6–9. Thrips new to Hawaii. 6. Head and pronotum of Adraneothrips alajuela. 7. Abdominal tergites 1 and 2 of A. alajuela. 8. Head and pronotum of Azaleothrips siamensis. 9. Head and antenna of Sophiothrips annulatus.