Anisopilothrips venustulus (Priesner, 1923)

Elie, Ntirenganya, Yajin, Li, Yanlan, Xie, Yanli, Zhou & Hongrui, Zhang, 2021, Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 72670-72670 : 72670

Anisopilothrips venustulus (Priesner, 1923)

Heliothrips venustulus Priesner, 1923: 89

Astrothrips angulatus Hood, 1925: 50. Synonymised by Wilson (1975).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: E.N. & X.Y. L; individualID: 2018-V-30 | 2019-V-18 | 2019-V-16; individualCount: 6; sex: 1 male, 5 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 2; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Anisopilothrips venustulus (Priesner); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Menglun), Jinghong ; decimalLatitude: 30.3427; decimalLongitude: 119.4338; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2019; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 30/05/2018, 16-18/05/2019; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from tea tree, lotus, wide plant varieties.

Distribution

Described from Grenada. Recorded from Florida USA, widely around the Caribbean, also Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, Fiji ( Mound and Marullo 1996) and China.

Diagnosis

Female macropterous; Body brown to yellowish-brown, abdomen often yellow (Fig. 3 ), antennal segments I-VI largely yellow with brown apices; tarsi yellow, hind tibiae yellow with small brown area, fore wings brown with small pale cross bands sub-basally, medially and at apex; antennae 8-segmented, III and IV with simple sense cone, segment VIII twice as long as VII. Pronotum reticulated; the presence of a complete longitidinal division on the mesonotum; fore wing curved forward at apex with two veins, first vein with about five dark setae and two setae distally, second vein with a row of widely-spaced setae.

Figures

Figure 3. Female of Anisopilothrips venustulus (Priesner, 1923).