Liothrips kuwayamai (Moulton)

Wang, Chin-Ling & Lin, Feng-Chyi, 2020, Genera and species of the Liothrips lineage (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) from Taiwan, Zootaxa 4861 (3), pp. 349-375 : 363

Liothrips kuwayamai (Moulton)

( Figs 54–59 )

Gynaikothrips kuwayamai Moulton, 1928a: 302 .

Described originally from a single female taken on an unknown plant at Koshun, Taiwan, 25.xi.1926, the following description is based on the female indicated below.

Female macroptera. Body length about 4 mm. Color brown, antennal segments I and II dark brown, same colour as head, III yellow, IV–V mostly yellow with distal ends darker, VI yellow with distal end greyish brown, VII and VIII dark brown; all femora brown, fore tibiae brownish yellow, mid and hind tibiae brown, all tarsi yellow; fore wings hyaline; major body setae brown.

Head 1.7 times as long as wide ( Fig. 54 ), po setae near middle of dorsum, blunt and as long as eyes; maxillary stylets retracted to middle of head, nearly to po setae, close together medially; antennal segments III and IV each twice as long as segment II ( Fig. 59 ); pronotum with 2 pairs of aa setae that are as short as discal setae, and less than half length of aa setae ( Fig. 55 ); mesopresternum boat-shaped, with irregular median protrusion ( Fig. 56 ); metanotal sculpture dense and longitudinal; pelta triangular ( Fig. 57 ); tergite II laterally with 2 accessary setae ( Fig. 58 ); tube shorter than head.

Specimen examined. Taiwan, Karapin (Chiayi), 1 female from Viburnum a rboricolum, 17.iv.1928 (Takahashi) .

Figures

FIGURES 54–59. Liothrips kuwayamai: (54) head; (55) pronotum; (56) mesopresternum; (57) pelta; (58) tergite II; (59) shape of antenna.