Azaleothrips siamensis 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 : 22

Azaleothrips siamensis Okajima.

Identified here from the original description and key to species (Okajima and Masumoto 2014), this thrips was found on dead branches in considerable numbers on Hawaii. It was collected in July 2016 from recently felled trees at USDA PBARC in Hilo, in lower Puna, and also in the forest at Kipuka Ki , Hawaii Volcanoes National Park . These specimens have the color, chaetotaxy, and sculpture character states of siamensis ( Fig. 8 ), although the mouth cone appears to be rather shorter in not extending across the mesosternum.

Figures

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.