Hydatothrips
Creators: name: Mirab-Balou, Majid
name: Yang, Shu-Lan
name: Tong, Xiao-Li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Hydatothrips

description: Key to Hydatothrips species from China (adapted from Wang 2007)
[* indicates species included from descriptions; ** see Mirab-balou et al. 2011a: 60]
1. Antenna 7-segmented.................................................................................. 2
- Antenna 8-segmented.................................................................................. 5
2. Fore wing second vein with 1 seta [Zhejiang]................................................... H. longjingensis
- Fore wing second vein with 2 setae....................................................................... 3
3. Posterior margin of pronotal blotch strongly concave, anterior margin even or slightly curved (Fig. 5); fore wing banded with brown and pale color [Guangdong].......................................................... H. ormosiae sp. n.
- Anterior and posterior margins of pronotal blotch strongly concave; fore wing brown, with a pale subbasal band.......... 4
4. Abdominal tergite VI paler than other tergites; tergites IV–VI with 5–7 lateral discal setae [Taiwan].......... H. meriposa *
- Abdominal tergites V–VI paler than other tergites; tergites IV–VI with 7–13 lateral discal setae [Taiwan]........... H. noro
5. Fore wing second vein with 1–2 setae..................................................................... 6
- Fore wing second vein without setae...................................................................... 8
6. Color of abdominal tergite IV paler than tergites III and V [Taiwan]..................................... H. flavidus *
- Abdominal tergites other color patterns.................................................................... 7
7. Abdominal tergite V paler than tergites I–IV and VI–X [Yunnan, Guangdong, Taiwan]................... H. liquidambara
- Abdominal tergite V not the palest [Yunnan].......................................................... H. onari
8. Abdominal segment V paler than other segments [Zhejiang, Fujian]................................... H. abdominalis
- Abdominal color pattern different......................................................................... 9
9. Abdominal segment I- or II–VI paler than other segments..................................................... 10
- Abdominal segments IV & V paler than III & VI............................................................ 11
10. Abdominal tergites I–VI paler [Beijing, Zhejiang, Henan, Fujian, Jiangxi]................................. H. dentatus
- Abdominal tergites II–VI paler, brown in middle [Wuhan, Hunan, Sichuan]........................... H. heteraureus *
11. Pronotum in front of blotch between median pair of anteromarginal setae polygonally sculptured, not orientated in any direc- tion [Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan].................................................... H. aureus
- Pronotum in front of blotch transversely reticulate........................................................... 12
12. Fore wing shaded in basal half, the rest much paler [Beijing]...................................... H. boerhaaviae *
- Fore wing shaded in distal three fourths, not paler distally.................................................... 13
13. Abdominal tergite X with microtrichia; male sternites V–VII with transverse pore plates............................ 14
- Abdominal tergite X without microtrichia; male sternites V or VI–VII with transverse pore plates..................... 15
14. Anterior angles of blotch pointed and forwarded anteriorly [Henan]................................... H. funiuensis *
- Anterior angles of blotch not pointed [Taiwan, Jiangsu, Hubei]............................................ H. ekasi
15. Male with pore plates on sternites VI & VII [Guizhou, Beijing, Shaanxi]............................... H. proximus **
- Male with pore plate only on sternite V [Guizhou]................................................ H. chinensis **
description: Published as part of Mirab-Balou, Majid, Yang, Shu-Lan & Tong, Xiao-Li, 2013, One new species, four new records and key to species of Hydatothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from China (including Taiwan) in Zootaxa 3641 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/216085