Rhipiphorothrips pulchellus Morgan, 1913

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

Rhipiphorothrips pulchellus Morgan, 1913

Rhipiphorothrips pulchellus Morgan, 1913: 17

Retithrips bicolor Bagnall, 1913: 290.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: X.Y. L; individualID: 2018-xi-17; individualCount: 10; sex: 4 males, 6 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 26; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Rhipiphorothrips pulchellus Morgan ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 21.930611; decimalLongitude: 101.258129; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 17/11/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from grape and a wide range of fruits.

Distribution

Described from Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Recorded from India, Indonesia and China (Xishuangbanna).

Diagnosis

R. pulchellus differs from other species of the same genus by the yellow pronotum and abdominal segments (Fig. 12 ) and the male does not have a tubercle laterally on abdominal segment IV.

Figures

Figure 12. Male of Rhipiphorothrips pulchellus Morgan, 1913.