Review of fungus-feeding urothripine species from China, with descriptions of two new species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)
Author
Tong, Xiaoli
Author
Zhao, Chao
text
Zootaxa
2017
4237
2
307
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journal article
36428
10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.5
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1175-5326
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Stephanothrips
Trybom
Stephanothrips
Trybom, 1913
: 42
. Type species
Stephanothrips buffai
Trybom, 1913
, by monotypy.
This is the largest urothripine genus, with 30 named species in the world (ThripsWiki 2017). Nearly 70% of these species are known from Asia, particularly Southeast Asia (
KudĂ´ 1978
,
1989
;
Okajima 1976
,
1982
,
1989
,
1994
, 2006;
Okajima & Urushihara 1995
), although some are from southern USA, and one from South Africa. With the new species described here, five species of
Stephanothrips
are now known from China (
Okajima 1976
;
Wang & Tong 2007
; Dang & Qiao 2014).