One new species, two generic synonyms and eight new records of Thripidae from China (Thysanoptera)
Author
Zhang, Shimeng
Author
Wang, Zhaohong
Author
Li, Yajin
Author
Mound, Laurence
text
Zootaxa
2018
4418
4
370
378
journal article
30113
10.11646/zootaxa.4418.4.3
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1175-5326
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Ensiferothrips wallacei
Mound & Tree
(
Fig. 15
)
The genus
Ensiferothrips
cOmprises fOur species. Three Of these are frOm
Australia
Of which One is alsO knOwn frOm
New CaledOnia
and
NOrfOlk
Island
. In cOntrast,
wallacei
was described frOm fOur females taken by insecticide fOgging Of an unidentified fOrest tree in
Sulawesi
,
IndOnesia
. This species is here recOrded frOm
China
fOr the first time, and the plant frOm which it was cOllected is clOsely related tO the knOwn hOst plants Of twO species in this genus (MOund & Tree 2016). In structure, it is very similar tO the
type
species Of the genus,
E. primus
, with which it shares curiOusly large dark, grOOved majOr setae On the head and prOnOtum (
Fig. 15
).
New recOrds:
China, Hainan
, DanzhOu, TrOpical BOtanical Garden, 1 female frOm
Maclura tricuspidata
[
MOraceae
],
19.x.2014
(ChaO ZhaO), in SCAU.