Species of Astrothrips from China, with one new species and a list of plant associations (Thysanoptera, Panchaetothripinae) Author Li, Yajin 0000-0003-3815-3021 Plant Protection College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China & yjli 2016 @ 126. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3815 - 3021 Author Mound, Laurence A. CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, P. O. Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. & Biotechnology and Engineering College, West Yunnan University, Lincang, 677000, China Author Xie, Yanlan 0000-0002-7668-3544 Plant Protection College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China & xieyanlan @ 126. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7668 - 3544 Author Zhang, Hongrui Plant Protection College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China text Zootaxa 2021 2021-01-28 4920 2 267 277 journal article 8389 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.2.7 7b869911-dbd0-4455-a6a0-2ef8aedfdc49 1175-5326 4475264 A8738C57-C36D-4D52-AF62-8622D6C60229 Astrothrips Karny Astrothrips Karny, 1921 . Type species Heliothrips globiceps Karny. Head with raised reticulate sculpture, ocellar area sometimes elevated; maxillary palps 2-segmented. Antennae 8- segmented, but usually with the distal segments fused to produce only 5, 6 or 7 visible segments; sense cones on III and IV forked or simple. Pronotum with some reticulate sculpture. Mesoscutum usually with anterior notch. Tarsi 1-segmented. Fore wings banded, bearing stout veinal setae, costal setae shorter than costal cilia; posteromarginal cilia wavy. Abdominal tergite II with anterior margin strongly constricted, and anterolaterally with a group of prominent strongly recurved microtrichia; tergites III–VII with transverse reticulation; VIII with no posteromarginal comb; X divided longitudinally. Males frequently with pore plates on abdominal sternites (absent only in aucubae and tumiceps ). Comments . The members of this genus are all from the Old World tropics, including northern Australia , and in structure they are similar to those of Anisopilothrips , Tryphactothrips and Elixothrips . However, of these three genera the species in the first two have distinctive sculptured areolae on the tergites and sternites ( Wilson 1975 ), and the single species in Elixothrips has the mesonotum with a longitudinal division and the tenth abdominal tergite with a pair of capitate setae (Zhang et.al. 2020). Recent phylogenetical studies recovered a polytomy between Astrothrips and two other clades: Elixothrips + Anisopilothrips and Copidothrips + Panchaetothrips ( Zhang et al. 2019 ) . The first review of Astrothrips was provided by Stannard and Mitri (1962) with a key to females of four species. Bhatti (1968) subsequently provided a key to five species, and Wilson (1975) reviewed the genus and provided a key to ten species. Kûdo (1979) described A. strasseni from Southeast Asia, Chen (1980) described A. chisinliaoensis from Taiwan , and Rachana et al . (2019) published a key to six Astrothrips species known from India . The genus now comprises 12 species ( Thrips Wiki 2020 ), with only three previously recorded from China (Mirab-balou et al. 2011; Zhang et al. 2020 ), Astrothrips aucubae , A. chisinliaoensis , and A. strasseni . However, four more Astrothrips species are here newly recorded from China of which one is newly described.