Gigantothrips tibialis Bagnall, 1921

Dang, Lihong, Mound, Laurence & Zhang, Hongrui, 2023, Review of the genus Gigantothrips Zimmermann from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae, Phlaeothripinae), ZooKeys 1169, pp. 221-234 : 221

Gigantothrips tibialis Bagnall

Fig. 1

Gigantothrips tibialis Bagnall, 1921: 364.

Material examined.

1♀ (SMF), India, Travancore , v.1934, S.A. Raw ; 1♀ (SMF), India, Mangalore, 21.i.1964, T.N. Ananthakrishnan .

Comments.

Described from Sri Lanka on Careya arborea , this species is probably widespread in India according to Ananthakrishnan (1964: 36). However, the identifying characters mentioned by Ananthakrishnan, 'basal third of mid and hind tibiae brown, rest yellow’, are inconsistent with the original description by Bagnall of all tibiae wholly yellow. Two females from southern India (Travancore and Mangalore) were studied here with the identical tibiae colouration given in the original description, and three major setae on the pronotum with ml close to aa (Fig. 1 ). This species was recorded from Hainan, China by Zhang (1984: 19), but without more identification information.

Figures

Figures 1 - 6. Gigantothrips spp. Head and pronotum (1, 2) 1 G. tibialis 2 G. gallicola; head, pronotum and fore leg (3) 3 G. pontis; tergite IV (4) 4 G. xynos; tergites IX-X (5, 6) 5 G. gallicola 6 G. xynos.