Megalurothrips typicus Bagnall, 1915

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

Megalurothrips typicus Bagnall, 1915

Megalurothrips typicus Bagnall, 1915: 590

Megalurothrips setipennis Karny, 1925: 32

Taeniothrips varicornis Moulton, 1928: 292

Taeniothrips centrispinosus Priesner, 1938: 474.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.Y. J, X.Y. L & Z.H. R; individualID: 2017-X-23 | 2017-X-24 | 2017-X-22 | 2018-V-28; individualCount: 36; sex: 8 males, 28 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 72; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Megalurothrips typicus Bagnall ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 21.851196; decimalLongitude: 100.953357; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 22/10/2017, 23/10/2017, 24/10/2017, 28/05/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

flowers, collected from kalancho, mango and papaya.

Distribution

Described from Malaysia. Recorded from Indonesia, Taiwan and China.