Astrothrips asiaticus (Bhatti, 1967)

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

Astrothrips asiaticus (Bhatti, 1967)

Sempothrips asiaticus Bhatti, 1967: 7.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: X.Y. L & Z.H. R; individualID: 2018-vi-1 | 2017-iii-11; individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 4; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Astrothrips asiaticus (Bhatti); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Menglun) ; decimalLatitude: 30.3427; decimalLongitude: 119.4338; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 11/03/2017, 01/06/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from grasses.

Distribution

Palaeotropics, from West Africa to northern Australia, Japan and southern China.

Diagnosis

Macropterous, body dark brown to yellowish with reticulations (Fig. 5 ); antennal 8-segments, all eight antennal segments are clearly separated, antennal segments III-IV with sense cone simple. Male with U-shaped sternal pore plates.

Figures

Figure 5. Male of Astrothrips asiaticus (Bhatti, 1967).