Astrothrips asiaticus (Bhatti)

Li, Yajin, Mound, Laurence A., Xie, Yanlan & Zhang, Hongrui, 2021, Species of Astrothrips from China, with one new species and a list of plant associations (Thysanoptera, Panchaetothripinae), Zootaxa 4920 (2), pp. 267-277 : 270

Astrothrips asiaticus (Bhatti)

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Most Astrothrips species have two or three of the distal antennal segments fused, but in asiaticus and strasseni all eight antennal segments are clearly separated. This species has 8-segmented antennae with the sense cone on segments III–IV simple, and the male with U-shaped sternal pore plates. It was described originally ( Bhatti 1967) in a monobasic genus, Sempothrips but was subsequently transferred to Astrothrips by Wilson (1975). Previously known only from western India, this species is here newly recorded from China.

Material studied. CHINA, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna , tropical botanical garden (26°05'53"N, 102°15'37"E), 2 females from Pronephrium sp., 8 females from Sarcandra glabra , 1 female from Ipomoea batatas , 11.iii.2017 ; 4 females, 1male from Mycetia gracilis , 1.viii.202; Mengla County, Bubeng Village , 3 females, 2 males, unknown, 2 females from grasses, 27.v.2018 ; Menglun Town , 4 females, 3 males, from Asystasia gangetica , 2.vi.2018 ; Nabanhe National Nature Reserve, 1 female from Ipomoea batatas ; Mansha Village, Jinghong Industrial Park Management Committee , 2 females from Ipomoea sp., 10.iii.2017 ; Kunming, Kunming arboretum, 2 females, from bamboo, 28.x.2018 . Sichuan Province, Chengdu City , 2 females from grasses, 3.x.2016, (specimens all collected by Li Ya-jin) ; Hainan Province, Haikou Geopark , 2 males from Serissa foetida , 8.x.2018 (Xie Yan-lan) ( YNAU).

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FIGURES 9–16. Head and pronotum of Astrothrips species. (9) aucubae; (10) globiceps; (11) chisinliaoensis (12) strasseni; (13) tumiceps; (14) Pronotum of glanduculus (variant); (15) glanduculus; (16) asiaticus.