Dendrothrips sexmaculatus Bagnall, 1916

Wang, Zhaohong, Mound, Laurence A. & Tong, Xiaoli, 2019, Character state variation within Dendrothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with a revision of the species from China, Zootaxa 4590 (2), pp. 231-248 : 246-247

Dendrothrips sexmaculatus Bagnall

( Figs 18 , 65 )

Dendrothrips sexmaculatus Bagnall, 1916: 401 .

Described from Sri Lanka, and recorded widely in India ( Tyagi, 2016), the record of this species from China was in a research report from Hainan province ( Gu & Chen, 1987) and repeated by Han (1997), but the number of specimens and the depositary are unknown.

Female: Body brown, abdominal tergites IV–VI pale with 1 pair of brown spots near submedian setae ( Fig. 65 ); antennae brown, but segments III–V paler; fore wing brown but white in basal fifth. Antennae 8-segmented, III–IV with forked sense cones. Head and pronotum reticulate with inner dots, all setae minute; mesonotum with transverse reticles; metanotum longitudinally striate with inner markings. Fore wing veinal setae small, first vein with 7 basal setae and 3 distal setae, second vein generally with 8–10 setae. Abdominal tergite III with transverse anastomosing striae bearing inner granules, tergites IV–VI with short ridges and fewer dots ( Fig. 18 ); tergite VIII with complete posteromarginal comb.

Male: Similar to female, but abdomen slender, tergites IV–V and VIII–X pale.

Material examined: SOUTH AFRICA (in ANIC), Transvaal, Pretoria, 2 females collected from Dovyalis caffra [ Salicaceae ], 21.xii.1959 (J.C. Faure).

Distribution: China (Hainan), India (Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal), Sri Lanka (Peradeniya), South Africa (Pretoria). Host plants: possibly plants in Flacourtiaceae or Salicaceae .

Figures

FIGURES 12–23. Dendrothrips. Fore wing 12–16: (12) homalii; (13) minowai; (14) stannardi; (15) howeii; (16) stannardi. Tergites 17–23: (17) homalii III–VI; (18) sexmaculatus III–VI; (19) virgulatus III–VI; (20) latimaculatus IV–VII; (21) howeii III–V; (22) ornatus IV–VI; (23) octosparsus sp. n. IV–VII.

FIGURES 63–68. Dendrothrips. octosparsus sp. n. 63–64: (63) female; (64) male. (65) sexmaculatus. (66) maltimaculatus. stannardi 67–68: (67) female; (68) male.