Bamboosiella
Creators: name: Dang, Li-Hong
name: Qiao, Ge-Xia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Bamboosiella

description: Key to Bamboosiella species from China
1. Large-body, head much longer than wide, and cheeks with spinulose setae (Figs 1–2, 9, 55–57); median antennal segments elongate (Figs 13–14, 29)............................................................................... 2
-. Small-body, head almost as long as wide, and cheeks smooth (Figs 3–8, 10–11, 58–64); antennal segments short (Figs 15–19, 30–32).............................................................................................. 4
2. Major body setae pointed at tip (Fig. 9); head slightly constricted behind eyes (Fig. 55).................... magnus sp.n.
-. Major body setae expanded at tip (Figs 1–2); head not constricted behind eyes (Figs 56–57).......................... 3
3. Body brown except abdominal segments II–III yellow (Fig. 56); anal setae almost as long as tube (Fig. 49)......... fasciata
-. Body brown except abdominal segments I–VI yellow (Fig. 57); anal setae about 1.5 times as long as tube (Fig. 47) bicoloripes
4. Body uniformly brown (Fig. 64)....................................................................... varia
-. Body bicoloured...................................................................................... 5
5. Pronotal am well developed, expanded (Figs 3–5, 7–8)........................................................ 6
-. Pronotal am reduced to short and pointed (Figs 6, 10–11)...................................................... 9
6. Fore wings without duplicated cilia................................................................ cingulata
-. Fore wings with duplicated cilia.......................................................................... 7
7. Thorax yellow to light brown, clearly lighter than dark brown head (Fig. 61); all legs yellow (Fig. 61)........... semiflava
-. Thorax brown and concolorous with head; not all legs yellow................................................... 8
8. Abdominal segments I–VIII uniformly yellow, IX brown with yellow markings at anterior half (Fig. 60)......... flavescens
-. Abdominal segments I–II yellow, other segments light brown to brown (Fig. 63)............................... nayari
9. Pronotum yellow, lighter than brown head (Fig. 62); anal setae about 2.0 times as long as tube (Fig. 54)...... longisetis sp.n.
-. Pronotum brown and concolorous with head (Figs 58–59); anal setae slightly shorter than tube (Figs 12, 27)............ 10
10. Antennal segment IV brown with yellow at base, V brown; abdominal segments I–VI yellow (Fig. 59); base of antennal segment VIII constricted, clearly separate from VII (Fig. 15)................................................. exastis
-. Antennal segment IV brown with yellow at base, V yellow; abdominal segments I–IX yellow, sometimes IX bicoloured (Fig. 58); antennal segments VII–VIII broadly joined (Fig. 19).......................................... antennatus sp.n.
description: Published as part of Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2016, Species of the Poaceae-associated genus Bamboosiella (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) from China, with three new species, pp. 541-552 in Zootaxa 4184 (3) on pages 542-543, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/272596