Meiothrips nepalensis
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Ordo: Thysanoptera
Familia: Phlaeothripidae
Genus: Meiothrips
Name
Meiothrips nepalensis Kudo & Ananthakrishnan, 1974 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Meiothrips nepalensis Kudo and Ananthakrishnan 1974[1]: 385; Kudo 1975[2]: 421; Palmer and Mound 1978[3]: 212.
Material examined
1 female and 2 males: China, Yunnan province, coll. M.Y. Lin by shaking withered tree leaves, 7.x.2010 (slides numbers, JM10058-4, JM10058-8, JM10058-12).
Distribution
China (Yunnan); Nepal, Thailand.
COI sequences
It includes 659bp with the GenBank number JQ411298.
Comments
This species is known from Nepal (Kudo and Ananthakrishnan 1974[1]) and Thailand (Palmer and Mound 1978[3]), and is here recorded from China for the first time. The remarkable structure of this species is that the tube of the male bears two rows of stout tubercles and numerous small and large tubercles. Idolothrips dissimilis from Australia also shows similar structures.
Taxon Treatment
- Dang, L; Qiao, G; 2012: The genus Meiothrips Priesner (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae) with a key and a new species from China ZooKeys, 177: 59-68. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kudo I, Ananthakrishnan T (1974) A new subgenus and species of Meiothrips Priesner (Thysanoptera: Megathripinae) from Nepal. Kontyû 42: 385-387.
- ↑ Kudo I (1975) New name for the subgenus Telothrips Kudo & Ananthakrishnan (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Kontyû 43: 421.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Palmer J, Mound L (1978) Nine genera of fungus-feeding Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera) from the Oriental Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 37: 153-215.
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