Studies on the genus Mesandrothrips from China, with a new species (Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae: Haplothripini) Author Dang, Li-Hong School of Bioscience and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, 723000, P. R. China Author Zhao, Lin-Peng Shaanxi Changqing National Nature Reserve, Changqing Jiayuan, No. 176 Dongyi Huan Road, Hanzhong, Shaanxi 723000, P. R. China Author Xie, Dan-Le School of Bioscience and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, 723000, P. R. China Author Zhao, Le School of Bioscience and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, 723000, P. R. China Author Qiao, Ge-Xia Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China & College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19, Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, P. R. China. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-07-15 4816 1 123 128 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.1.9 1175-5326 3954163 925245B2-44CB-45DB-8174-AEBD14353F8E Mesandrothrips pictipes (Bagnall) ( Figs 4 , 8 , 17 ) Haplothrips pictipes Bagnall, 1919: 273 . Described originally from Indonesia (Sumatra) and India (Talimbaramta) and recorded on diseased pepper berries, the feeding habits of this species are not clear. Mound and Tree (2019) recorded the species living on the leaves and flowers of live plants, various weeds, dried fruits and dead branches. In this study, 38 females and 19 males have been beaten from weeds, bamboo leaves and pine tree with isolated individuals from southwest of China , including Tibet , Sichuan , Jiangxi and Yunnan . Some males have armed fore tarsi and somewhat enlarged fore femora, and the species may be a predator rather than a fungus-feeder. It is easily distinguished from the other three Mesandrothrips species from China in having the pronotal am setae well developed ( Fig. 4 ) .