Anaphothrips ponokikirmui Kudo, 1989

Evdokarova, T. G. & Vierbergen, G., 2021, First record of Anaphothrips ponokikirmui Kudo, 1989 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 30 (2), pp. 146-148 : 146-148

Anaphothrips ponokikirmui Kudo, 1989

Figs 1–8.

MATERIAL. Russia: Central Yakutia , environs of Yakutsk, Vilyui tract 13 km, 62°02´N, 129°28´E, Calamagrostis 21.07.2017 7♀ (4 hemimacroptera, 3 microptera) , 4♂ (2 hemimacroptera, 2 microptera) ; leg. Evdokarova T. G. Material is added to the collection of IBPC SB RAS (5♀, 2♂), Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt am Main , Germany (1♀, 1♂) and to National Reference Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands (1♀, 1♂) .

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: E Siberia: C Yakutia; China: Heilongjiang; Japan: Hokkaido and Honshu.

DESCRIPTIONS (measurements in micrometers) Female (micropterous) completely yellow ( Fig. 1), with tip of rostrum and tip of abdominal X brown; body length 1370; head length 142, width 166; with transversely striae on posterior half; outside ocellar triangle; antennae 9-segmented ( Fig. 2), length antennae 268; IV and V yellow, but darkening to the apex and VI–IX brown, segments III–IV with forked sensorium; III–VI with rows of microtrichia; VI with an incomplete oblique suture; all body setae yellow; pronotum without long setae ( Fig. 3); pronotum length 130, width 186; with faint transversely striae on anterior and posterior parts; mesonotum with transversely striae, with 2 medial setae; metanotum reticulate sculpture, with medial setae on anterior third, without campaniform sensillae ( Fig. 4); metascutellum some longitudinal striae, with some tergite III–VII medially with very faint sculpture, tergite II–VII with lateral serrations at posterior margin ( Fig. 5); tergite VIII with complete comb with about 20 long hairs, tergite IX with S1 about 102 ( Fig. 6);Wings are developed or short, grayish brown ( Fig. 7).

Male: yellow, micropterous with small round to oval pore plates on sternite III–VII ( Fig. 8).

How to cite this article: Evdokarova T.G., Vierbergen G. 2021. First record of Anaphothrips ponokikirmui Kudo, 1989 ( Thysanoptera : Thripidae ) from Russia // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.30. No.2. P.146–148. doi: 10.15298/rusentj.30.2.06

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REMARKS. A. ponokikirmui is similar to A. obscurus , but differs in the metanotum without campaniform sensillae and body completely yellow.

The Yakutian specimens differ in position of mesonotal median pair of setae and metanotal median setae. Kudo [1989] gives in the original description for the female “interdistance of inner (anterior) pair more than 0.8 times as long as interdistance of outher (posterior) pair”. In Yakutian specimens this ratio is 0.53 to 0.65. This position is not stable in these specimens ( Figs 3–4) and therefore a variable character. We synonymize Anaphothrips oroqeni Cui et Wang, 2019 with A. ponokikirmui because the differences given under ‘remarks’ of the description of A. oroqeni by Cui and Wang [2019] are not valid. The authors state tergite X should be yellowish in A. oroqeni and, in contrast, this segment should be brown in A. ponokikirmui . Kudo [1989], however, they describe colouration of segment X as yellow, with the tip of the segment brown. The latter can be seen clearly in fig. 45 in Cui & Wang [2019]. The second differential character given by Cui and Wang is the lack of serrations in the medial part of tergite II to VII of A. ponokikirmui . In figure 4 of Kudo [1989] laterally pointed lobes are seen, which he describes as “distinct serrations”. Absence of medial weakly developed serrations (indistinct serrations) is not mentioned by him. These laterally pointed lobes are seen in figure 39 in Cui and Wang as well as medially weakly developed serrations. In Yakutian material posteromedially tergites V to VII have indistinct serrations; they are most strong in the VII and are absent in tergite II– IV ( Fig. 1). Between specimens development of these medial serrations is as a rule variable and in this case this character of presence/absence is not valid for species separation.