Bamboosiella Ananthakrishnan 1957
Creators: name: Zhao, Chao
name: Wang, Zhaohong
name: Tong, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Bamboosiella

description: Key to Bamboosiella species from China
1. Head at least more than 1.4 times as long as wide; antennal segment IV at least 2.0 times as long as wide; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes...................................................................................... 2
-. Head almost as long as wide, sometimes wider than long; antennal segment IV less than 2.0 times as long as wide; fore tarsal tooth present or absent................................................................................. 6
2. Body uniformly brown (Figs 41, 42); antennal segments I–VIII brown except III yellow and IV–VI bicoloured; pronotal am reduced to minute setae, other major setae developed with blunt apex; sub-basal wing setae S1 and S2 weakly blunt, S3 pointed apically................................................................................... lewisi
-. Body bicoloured (Fig. 11)............................................................................... 3
3. Fore tibiae with a sub-apical tubercle (Figs 29, 30); abdominal segments II–IX uniformly yellow (Figs 43, 44).... xiphophora
-. Fore tibiae without a sub-apical tubercle; abdominal segments II–IX bicoloured?brown and yellow..................... 4
4. Postocular setae longer than eye, pointed apically; antennal segments IV–VI brown with basal half yellow; sub-basal wing setae S1–S3 pointed apically....................................................................... magnus
-. Postocular setae distinctly short than eye, expended apically; antennal segments IV–VI uniformly yellow; sub-basal wing setae S1–S3 expanded apically............................................................................... 5
5. Abdominal segments brown except II–III yellow (Figs 39, 40)............................................. fasciata
-. Abdominal segments brown except II–VI yellow..................................................... bicoloripes
6. Pronotal am reduced to minute setae and pointed apically..................................................... 7
-. Pronotal am well-developed and expanded apically......................................................... 11
7. Postocular setae expanded at apex........................................................................ 8
-. Postocular setae pointed apically......................................................................... 9
8. Antennal segments IV–VIII brown except IV with basal 1/3 and V with basal 1/4 yellow (Fig. 8); abdominal segments uniformly yellow except the tube............................................................... caudibruna sp. n.
-. Antennal segment V yellow, IV and VI brown with basal 1/4 yellow, VII–VIII brown; abdominal segments yellow except for III–IV each with a pale brown marking laterally..................................................... antennatus
9. Pronotum much paler than brown head and pterothorax; abdominal segments III–VII each with a pale brown marking anteromedially; anal setae about 2.0 times longer than the tube................................................ longisetis
-. Head and thorax brown; anal setae slightly longer than the tube, much less than 2.0 times as long as tube............... 10
10. Abdominal segments III–V each with a pale brown marking anteromedially; pronotal aa, ml and pa well-developed and expanded apically; fore tarsal tooth absent in both sexes.................................................. exastis
-. Abdominal segments III–VI each with a pale brown marking anteromedially; pronotal aa, ml and pa setae reduced to short and pointed apically; fore tarsal tooth present in male........................................................ brevis
11. Body uniformly brown................................................................................ 12
-. Body bicoloured..................................................................................... 13
12. Antennal segments I–VIII brown except segment III yellow; pronotum almost smooth; metanotum with polygonal reticulation................................................................................................. varia
-. Antennal segments I–VIII brown except segment III yellow at basal half; pronotum covered with irregular sculpture entirely (Fig. 21); metanotum with narrow spaced longitudinal anastomosing striae (Fig. 23)...................... sculpta sp. n.
13. Fore wings without duplicated cilia; abdominal tergite IX setae S1 pointed apically.......................... cingulata
-. Fore wings with duplicated cilia; abdominal tergite IX setae S1 expanded apically................................. 14
14. Head dark brown, thorax yellowish brown, much paler than head; all legs yellow............................ semiflava
-. Head brown concolorous with thorax; not all legs yellow..................................................... 15
15. Antennal segments I–VIII brown except III yellow; abdominal segments I–II yellow, other segments light brown to brown.................................................................................................. nayari
-. Antennal segments I–VIII brown except III yellow and IV–VI bicoloured; Abdominal segments I–VIII uniformly yellow, IX light brown with yellow markings at anterior half........................................................... 16
16. Head covered with reticulation entirely; pronotal am as long as aa; abdominal segments III–VIII each with pale brown anteromedian marking............................................................................. rugata sp. n.
-. Dorsal surface of head smooth medially; pronotal am much longer than aa; abdominal segments III–VIII without pale brown anteromedian marking........................................................................... flavescens
description: Published as part of Zhao, Chao, Wang, Zhaohong & Tong, Xiaoli, 2018, Three new species and three new records of the genus Bamboosiella from China (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), pp. 167-180 in Zootaxa 4514 (2) on pages 167-168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2607872