Apelaunothrips indicus ( Ananthakrishnan, 1968 )

Zhao, Chao, Jia, Huimin & Tong, Xiaoli, 2018, Two new records and one new species of the genus Apelaunothrips from China (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 4450 (3), pp. 385-393 : 390

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.3.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5967553
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scientific name	Apelaunothrips indicus ( Ananthakrishnan, 1968 )
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Apelaunothrips indicus ( Ananthakrishnan, 1968) View in CoL

( Figs 5, 6 View FIGURES 5–6 , 11 View FIGURES 11–12 , 16 View FIGURES 13–17 , 20, 21 View FIGURES 18–23 )

Philothrips indicus Ananthakrishnan, 1968: 125 View in CoL .

Apelaunothrips indicus (Ananthakrishnan) View in CoL : Mound, 1974: 17.

Material examined. CHINA, Guangdong: 1 female and 2 males, Guangzhou City, Arboretum of South China Agricultural University (23°09'N, 113°21'E), from leaf litter, 18.vii.2004, Jun Wang; 1 female and 4 males, the same locality, 13.viii.2004, Jun Wang; 1 male, the same locality, 1.vii.2014, Chao Zhao.

Distribution: India, China (Guangdong).

Comments. Described in the genus Philothrips from southern India ( Ananthakrishnan 1968), this species was transferred to Apelaunothrips by Mound (1974). The 9 specimens (including 7 males) listed above are here identified from the original description ( Ananthakrishnan 1968). This species is very similar to A. lieni Okajima from Taiwan ( Okajima 1979) in sharing the coloration and the antennal segments III and IV each having 2 sense cones ( Figs 6 View FIGURES 5–6 , 16 View FIGURES 13–17 ). However, the numbers of setae on the metanotum could be easily separated from each other ( Figs 11–12 View FIGURES 11–12 ). It is worth mentioning here, there are 12–14 setae ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 11–12 ) on the metanotum of A. lieni after examining Taiwanese specimens of lieni (female and male) provided by Okajima, therefore, at couplet 15 of the key to the world species of Apelaunothrips by Okajima (1979), the word “mesonotum” of lieni and indicus is obviously a misspelling of “metanotum” (see also Okajima 1979 on page 50).