Paithrips circularis Nonaka &amp; Jangvitaya
Creators: name: Wang, Zhaohong
name: Zhao, Chao
name: Chen, Junyu
name: Tong, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Paithrips
Paithrips circularis

description: <i>Paithrips circularis</i> Nonaka &amp; Jangvitaya (Figs 16–18) <i>Paithrips circularis</i> Nonaka &amp; Jangvitaya, 1994: 47. Female. Body largely yellow, but head light brown; antennal segments I, apical half of VI and V brown, the remaining yellow. Fore wing light brown with 3 pale areas. Head (Fig. 16) wider than long with transverse lines posteriorly, slightly constricted just behind compound eyes; cheeks slightly rounded; ocellar setae setae III longer than II, situated at posterior margin of ocellar triangle; postocular setae I and II are sub-equal in length, longer than setae III and IV. Mouth-cone short and rounded. Pronotum longer than head, sculptured with distinctly transverse anastomosing striae on dorsal surface, along with some small circles near lateral margin in posterior third (Fig. 18); two pairs of posteroangular setae well developed, inner pair longer than outer pair; two or three pairs of anteromarginal setae often very long; three pairs of posteromarginal setae present. Mesonotum sculptured with transverse anastomosing lines medially (Fig. 17); metanotum distinctly reticulated, median pair of setae behind anterior margin (Fig. 17). Fore wing first vein with 7 basal setae, 2–3 apical setae, posteromarginal cilia wavy. Abdominal tergites II–VIII weakly sculptured with transverse lines anteriorly, tergite VIII without posteromarginal comb, tergite X without median slit. Material examined. 1&amp;female;, China, Hainan, Wanning City, Niulou Town (18°46'N, 110°15'E; elev. 30 m), collected from <i>Averrhoa carambola</i> L, 27 November 2014, leg. Junyu Chen. Distribution. China (Hainan); Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia. Remarks. The genus <i>Paithrips</i> was established by Nonaka and Jangvitaya in 1994 with the type species <i>Paithrips circularis</i> from Malaysia and Thailand. Later, Masumoto and Okajima (2012) described a second species in the genus from Vietnam. This genus is similar to the genus <i>Okajimaella</i>, but it can be separated from the latter by the dorsal surface of pronotum apparently sculptured with transverse lines and abdominal tergite IX with a pair of posteromarginal drepanae (Nonaka &amp; Jangvitaya, 1994). <i>Paithrips</i> is newly recorded from China in this study. The generic epithet “ <i>pai</i> ” is the meaning of bamboo in Thai and refers to the species of <i>Paithrips</i> mainly inhabiting in bamboo (Nonaka &amp; Jangvitaya, 1994). However, <i>Paithrips circularis</i>, the single specimen recorded here, was collected from the leaf of starfruit. <b>Funding</b> This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372236) and the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest (201203092). <b>Acknowledgements</b> We are grateful to Prof. Yueguan Fu (Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Hainan) for providing help in field work and Dr. Majid Mirab-balou (College of Agriculture, Ilam University, Iran) for providing useful information in identification of the genus <i>Bregmatothrips</i>. Thanks are also due to anonymous referees for their editorial advice and constructive comments.
description: Published as part of <i>Wang, Zhaohong, Zhao, Chao, Chen, Junyu &amp; Tong, Xiaoli, 2016, Two newly recorded genera and a new species of Thripinae from China (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), pp. 253-260 in Zoological Systematics 41 (3)</i> on pages 258-259, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201626, http://zenodo.org/record/5367223