Mound Laurence A
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO Box 1700, ACT 2601, Australia.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2013 Nov 26;3741:181-93. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.1.7.
Species of Apelaunothrips are fungus-feeders on dead leaves, particularly in leaf-litter, and they are recorded across the Old World tropics from Africa to northern Australia and southern Japan. All species in this genus have the maxillary stylets 4-6 microns in diameter, considerably broader than the 2-3 micron diameter that is typical among Phlaeothripinae. The species are largely uniform in structure, but in four species the larger males have fore femora enlarged with a conspicuous tubercle on the inner margin at the base. In one of these species, the males are dimorphic, with no intermediates between large and small individuals, in contrast to the continuous variation in structure found in many polymorphic Phlaeothripidae. A key is provided to the 37 recognised species of Apelaunothrips, including the following: A. desleyae sp.n. from northern Australia; A. bogor sp.n. from Java; A. gombak sp.n. from Peninsular Malaysia.
阿佩拉蓟马属的物种以枯叶上的真菌为食，尤其是在落叶层中，在从非洲到澳大利亚北部和日本南部的旧世界热带地区均有记录。该属所有物种的上颚口针直径为4 - 6微米，比管蓟马亚科中典型的2 - 3微米直径要宽得多。这些物种在结构上基本一致，但有四个物种中，较大的雄性个体的前股骨膨大，基部内缘有明显的瘤。在其中一个物种中，雄性个体具有二态性，大小个体之间没有中间类型，这与许多多态管蓟马科中发现的结构连续变化形成对比。文中提供了一个阿佩拉蓟马属37个已确认物种的检索表，包括以下物种：来自澳大利亚北部的德氏阿佩拉蓟马新种；来自爪哇的茂物阿佩拉蓟马新种；来自马来西亚半岛的贡巴克阿佩拉蓟马新种。
