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Issue: Vol. 4514 No. 2: 7 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.2
Page range: 167–180
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 26

Three new species and three new records of the genus Bamboosiella from China (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)

Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae Bamboosiella bamboo new species

Abstract

Bamboosiella caudibruna sp. n., B. rugata sp. n. and B. sculpta sp. n. are described and illustrated from China. In addition, B. brevis Okajima, B. lewisi (Bagnall) and B. xiphophora Okajima are newly recorded from this country. A key for identification of seventeen Chinese Bamboosiella species is provided.

 

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