Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China Author Elie, Ntirenganya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4603-5693 Plant Protection College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China & Rwandan Association of Ecologists (ARECO Rwanda), Kigali, Rwanda elientirenganya@gmail.com Author Yajin, Li Agronomy and Biotechnology College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China Author Yanlan, Xie Biotechnology and Engineering College, West Yunnan University, Lincang, 677000, China Author Yanli, Zhou The Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China Author Hongrui, Zhang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0089-1099 Plant Protection College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China hongruizh@126.com text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-11-24 9 72670 72670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e72670 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e72670 1314-2828-9-e72670 705F74B63C8850A08D6DBA243535218D 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.