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Issue: Vol. 4614 No. 1: 7 Jun 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-06-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.1.11
Page range: 191–194
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Urothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) from canopy of monsoon forest in China

College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China.
College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
Thysanoptera Phlaeothripidae

Abstract

Urothrips is one of a group of 10 genera of fungus-feeding Phlaeothripinae in which species have the tenth abdominal segment greatly elongate and bearing long anal setae (Mound 1972; Okajima 2006). The genus is recorded from Africa, Asia and Australia (ThripsWiki 2019), and currently comprises 11 species. A key to nine of these species was provided by Ulitzka and Mound (2014), to which two further species from China were added subsequently (Tong & Zhao 2017; Zhao & Tong 2017). The purpose of this paper is to describe a new species of Urothrips. This is the fifth member of the genus recorded from China, the others being U. calvus Tong & Zhao, U. lancangensis Zhao & Tong, U. gibberosa Kudo and U. tarai Stannard.

 

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