Habrothrips curiosus Ananthakrishnan

Overview & Synopsis

Habrothrips curiosus Ananthakrishnan(Figs 6–8)Habrothrips curiosus Ananthakrishnan, 1967: 138.Specimens examined. China, Guangdong, Guangzhou City, Longdong Forest Park (23°14'N, 113°24'E), 1 female collected from leaf litter, 30.ix.2007 (Jun Wang).Distribution. China (Guangdong, Taiwan); India, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia.Comments: This species was described from southern India in 1967, and recorded later from Australia (Mound 1972), Thailand (Kudô 1978), Taiwan (Chen 1980) and Malaysia (Dang et al. 2014). It is here newly recorded from mainland China. This specimen has the head strongly prolonged in front of the eyes, with a pair of prominent setae with expanded apices near eyes (Fig. 7); antennae 8-segmented (Fig. 8), segment III with 2 sense cones, IV with 3 sense cones; pronotal epimeral setae well-developed; meta-epimeron with one well-developed seta; fore wings slender but strongly tuberculate on basal third (Fig. 6); abdominal tergite IX elongate, much longer than head, but slightly shorter than tube. Mound (1972) pointed out that the number of sense cones on segment III varies from 1–2 (Mound 1972).