Astrothrips strasseni Kudo, 1979

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 : 276

Astrothrips strasseni Kudo

( Figs 12 , 17, 26 )

Described originally from bamboo in Myanmar ( Kudo 1979), this species was subsequently recorded from Orchidaceae in China, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna ( Zhang &Tong 1993), where recently another four specimens were collected from an unknown plant. This species is readily recognized among Astrothrips species by the 8-segmented antennae with segments III–IV having the sense cone forked.

Material studied. CHINA, Yunnan Province, Menghai County, Man ’ gao Village , 3 females, unknown plant, 16.v.2019 (Xie Yan-lan) ( YNAU), 1 female with same data is deposited in ANIC .

Figures

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.

FIGURES 17–26. Astrothrips species. 17–18, 20–22. Meso-metanotum of Astrothrips species (17) strasseni; (18) chisinliaoensis; (19) Antennae of aucubae; (20) aucubae; (21) tumiceps; (22) glanduculus; (23) Fore wing of glanduculus; 24–26 Antennae of Astrothrips species (24) glanduculus; (25) chisinliaoensis; (26) strasseni.