Asprothrips bimaculatus sp. n. (Thripidae, Dendrothripinae) Author Michel, Bruno CIRAD, UMR CBGP (INRA, IRD, CIRAD, SupAgro), Campus de Baillarguet, CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez, France. Author Ryckewaert, Philippe CIRAD, Pôle de Recherche Agronomique de la Martinique, BP 214, 97285 Le Lamentin cedex 2, Martinique, France. text Zootaxa 2014 2014-06-24 3821 4 500 500 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3821.4.9 f53f4451-43e5-4a52-ae83-eac3fe9a02cf 1175-5326 4920194 3E81632F-12A5-4143-917C-C05A47574F24 Asprothrips bimaculatus sp. n. Asprothrips bimaculatus Michel & Ryckewaert, 2014: 496 ( nomen nudum ) This new species is unique among the five species now recognised in this genus in having the body sharply bicoloured, with the head and thorax dark but the abdomen white. Specimens examined . Holotype female, Martinique , Soudon [ 14°38’43”N61°00’22”W ] 16.ii.2012 , on Dieffenbachia seguine ( Araceae ) in banana crop (P. Ryckewaert), in Collection CIRAD-CBGP, Montpellier, France. Paratypes : 4 females taken with holotype .