Thrips malloti Priesner
Creators: name: Masumoto, Masami
name: Okajima, Shûji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Thrips
Thrips malloti

description: Thrips malloti Priesner   
(Figs. 137–142)  
 Female macroptera. Body usually uniformly dark brown, antecostal ridge dark; antennal segments I to II brown, III brownish yellow, IV to V brown with base yellowish, VI to VII brown; fore wings brown with basal fourth including clavus pale brown; fore femora yellow, mid and hind femora yellow with anterior margin shaded, all tibiae and tarsi yellow; prominent body setae dark brown. Head (Fig. 137) rounded at cheeks, sculptured within ocellar triangle. Ocellar setae III just behind fore ocellus on margin of ocellar triangle. Postocular setae I and III slightly longer than diameter of hind ocelli, II and IV minute. Antennae (Fig.138) 7-segmented and slender, II without microtrichial row, III to IV slightly rounded at each side and without apical neck, IV the longest, IV to V pedicelate, VI rounded at each side of basal half. Pronotum (Fig. 137) distinctly sculptured with transverse striae, with about 40 discal setae; posteroangular setae 2 pairs; posteromarginal setae 2 or 3 pairs, setae I the longest. Mesonotum sculptured with transverse anastomosing striae, except anteromedially; CPS usually present. Metascutum (Fig. 139) distinctly reticulate and with small wrinkles within reticulations; median pair of setae far from anterior margin; CPS usually present. Fore wing first vein without gap in setal row. Abdominal tergites III to VIII (Fig. 140) with no lines of sculpture extending to mesad of S1 setae; tergites II to VI with S1 setae minute; tergite II with 4 lateral marginal setae; tergite VIII without posteromarginal comb; tergite IX with 2 pairs of CPS; sternites without discal setae; sternite I with three microsetae anteromedially; sternite VII with S1 setae much far from posterior margin; pleurotergites without discal setae and ciliate microtrichia.   
 Male macroptera. Body colour similar to female. Antennal segment VI with about 20 setae; abdominal tergite IX (Fig. 141) with S1 setae at or slightly anterior to level of S2 setae and slightly longer than S2 setae, their bases equidistant; sternites III to VII (Fig. 142) each with a large transverse pore plate.   
 Specimens examined. TAIWAN: Chiai-hsien, 2 females (TUA). INDONESIA: Bali Is., 1 female (TUA). SOUTH CELEBES: Malino, 1 female (TUA). THAILAND: Phuket Is., 1 male (TUA).   
 Distribution. Japan (Ryukyus), widespread in the Oriental Region to northern Australia.   
 Biology. This species is associated with the flowers of Lantana, Mallotus and Beaumontia (Palmer, 1992: 23.).   
 Comments. This species was described from Sumatra and T. addendus from Taiwan is now considered a synonym, but there is no record of either of these having been found in Okinawa. However, Jacot-Guillarmod (1975) and Palmer (1992) included Japan, Okinawa in their distribution lists, although we have not seen any specimens from Japan.
description: Published as part of Masumoto, Masami & Okajima, Shûji, 2013, Review of the genus  Thrips  and related genera (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Japan, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3678 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3678.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10098369