Terthrothrips parvus Okajima

Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Key to the fungus-feeder Phlaeothripinae species from China (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zoological Systematics 39 (3), pp. 313-358 : 354

3.2.93 Terthrothrips parvus Okajima ( Figs 50 , 96 )

Terthrothrips parvus Okajima, 2006: 616 ; Wang & Tong, 2011: 64.

Specimens examined. Taiwan ( Pingtung-hsien , Nanjenshan Mt. ), 4 females and 4 males from dead leaves, 19 January 2002 – 10 November 2002 ( NZMC); Japan (Okinawa-ken, Okinawa-hontou Island), paratypes 1 female and 1 male from leaf-litter, 7 April 1990 ( TUA) .

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan), Japan.

Remarks. This species is described by Okajima (2006) from Japan, and have two sensoria on antennal segment III in the original text. However, two paratypes (1 female and 1 male) examined in this study show three sensoria on the antennal segment III. Furthermore, four females and four males from Taiwan, China studied here also show three sensoria. It is not easy to see the one ventral sensorium.

Figures

Figs 49–56. Head, pronotum and antenna. 49–50. Head and pronotum. 49. Terthrothrips apterus. 50. Terthrothrips parvus. 51–56. Antenna. 51. Apelaunothrips hainanensis. 52. Apelaunothrips lieni. 53. Apelaunothrips medioflavus. 54. Apelaunothrips nigripennis. 55. Azaleothrips moundi. 56. Baenothrips ryukyuensis.

Figs. 93–96. Abdominal tergites. 93. Holothrips flavus, abdominal tergites IX–X. 94. Phylladothrips pallidus, abdominal tergites VIII–X. 95. Streptothrips tibialis, abdominal tergites VIII–X. 96. Terthrothrips parvus, abdominal sternites VI–VIII.