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.
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-06-24
3821
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500
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journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3821.4.9
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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”N
–
61°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
.