Craspedothrips minor (Bagnall)

Mound, L. A., Masumoto, M. & Okajima, S., 2012, The Palaeotropical genus Craspedothrips, with new species from Africa and Malaysia (Thysanoptera, Thripinae), Zootaxa 3478, pp. 49-61 : 56

Craspedothrips minor (Bagnall)

( Figs 20, 21 )

Physothrips minor Bagnall, 1921: 393

Described from India and transferred to Craspedothrips by Mound (1968), four synonyms were indicated by Bhatti (1990) who recorded the species as widespread across India to Bangladesh, Indonesia and Taiwan. Specimens have also been seen from Thailand and Malaysia, and from northern Australia as well as eastern Australia near Sydney. Despite the frequency with which adults have been taken, the larval host-plant range remains unknown. Females and two larvae have been studied collected from Cassia at Delhi by J.S.Bhatti, and as noted above, adults are commonly taken on Acacia or Cassia siamea with flowers [ Fabaceae ] imported from Thailand by Japanese plant quarantine ( Masumoto, 2009; Masumoto et al., 2003). The two larvae taken at Delhi are pale yellow, with long capitate setae on the thorax and abdomen, the body surface bears numerous transverse rows of small elongate tubercles, but the posterior margin of tergite VIII is without tubercles.

Figures

FIGURES 15–21. Craspedothrips species. C. malaysiae 15–19: (15) holotype - pro, meso and metanota, and tergites I–II; (16) paratype from Bali—head and thorax; (17) tergite VIII; (18) tergites VI–IX; (19) sternites V–VII. C. minor 20–21: (20) antenna; (21) head & pronotum.