Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China Author Elie, Ntirenganya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4603-5693 Plant Protection College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China & Rwandan Association of Ecologists (ARECO Rwanda), Kigali, Rwanda elientirenganya@gmail.com Author Yajin, Li Agronomy and Biotechnology College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China Author Yanlan, Xie Biotechnology and Engineering College, West Yunnan University, Lincang, 677000, China Author Yanli, Zhou The Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China Author Hongrui, Zhang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0089-1099 Plant Protection College, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China hongruizh@126.com text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-11-24 9 72670 72670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e72670 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e72670 1314-2828-9-e72670 705F74B63C8850A08D6DBA243535218D Phibalothrips rugosus Kudo, 1979 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: E.N. & Z.H. R ; individualID: 2018-viii-2 | 2018-v-3 ; individualCount: 6 ; sex: 2 males , 4 females ; lifeStage: adults ; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 23; Taxon : scientificNameAuthorship: Phibalothrips rugosus Kudo ; Location : country: China ; stateProvince: Yunnan ; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 21.919882 ; decimalLongitude: 101.191583 ; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking ; eventDate: 03/05/2018 , 02/08/2018 ; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen Ecological interactions Feeds on leaves, collected from Poaceae and bamboo. Distribution Described from Malaysia and recorded from Japan and China (Xishuangbanna). Notes Newly recorded for China. Diagnosis Female macropterous; body bicoloured (Fig. 10 ), head and thorax dark brown and constricted behind eye, abdomen yellow; legs and antennal segments III-V yellow; fore wing slender, uniformly pale or a little darker at base, with no long setae; antennae 6-segmented, V-VII form single unit; sensoria on III and IV slender, each with one simple sensorium. Male similar to female, but smaller, without pore plate at sternites III-VII. The distinctive feature of this genus is an elongated head that is strongly irregular, circular reticulated and constricted behind the eyes.