Variation in colour markings of an unusual new Asprothrips species from China (Thysanoptera, Thripidae)

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Asprothrips · Topics: Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant and animal studies

The second species of the genus Asprothrips with a bicoloured body, A. atermaculosus sp. n., is described and illustrated from China. This is characterised by considerable intra-population variation in the number and size of brown markings on the abdominal tergites. Asprothrips fuscipennis Kudô, previously described from Japan, is newly recorded in China.

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