Okajimaella tubercula Nonaka & Jangvitaya, 1994

Ng, Y. F. & Mound, L. A., 2015, Species of Thripinae (Thysanoptera) from bamboo in Malaysia, with one new species and six new records, Zootaxa 3918 (4), pp. 492-502 : 495-496

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6110445

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scientific name

Okajimaella tubercula Nonaka & Jangvitaya, 1994
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Okajimaella tubercula Nonaka & Jangvitaya, 1994 View in CoL

( Figs 19–21 View FIGURES 16 – 21 )

Female macroptera. Body and legs largely yellow, abdomen darkening to posterior, head with vertex and ocellar region brown ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 16 – 21 ); fore wing slightly shaded at middle; antennal segment I brown, II variably pale to brown, III–IV uniformly yellow, V–VII brown, sometimes V basal half pale ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 16 – 21 ). Head about as long as wide; ocellar setae II longest, arising near margin of compound eyes in front fore ocellus, pair III arising on tangent between posterior margins of hind ocelli ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 16 – 21 ). Pronotum as wide as long, with 2 pairs of long posteroangular setae, posterior margin with 3 pairs of setae, inner pair longest. Fore tibia with prominent spur on inner apical margin. Mesonotum without median campaniform sensilla. Metanotum with median setae arising behind anterior margin ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 16 – 21 ). Tergite VIII without posteromarginal comb of microtrichia. Sternites with 3 pairs of posteromaginal setae, V–VI with a few small circular pore plates.

Material studied, Malaysia, Selangor, Kajang. 6 females from Bambusa sp., 15.xi.2013 (Ng, Y.F.), 2 females from the same plant, 7.i.2014 (Ng, Y.F.), in CISUKM and ANIC.

Comments. Three species are described in this genus, one from Vietnam, and two from Thailand including tubercula . This latter species is here newly recorded from Malaysia.

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Thripidae

Genus

Okajimaella

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