Neandrothrips bamboosae (Okajima), 2025

Neandrothrips bamboosae (Okajima) comb. nov.

Xylaplothrips bamboosae Okajima, 2006: 598–599 View in CoL .

This species was described from the temperate region of Honshu, Japan, based on a series of females and males taken from bamboo, and is included in the bamboosae View in CoL -group. It may be related to N. simulans sp. nov. described below from a somewhat wider range of tropical Southeast Asia. They have two major and one small sense cones (1 ++11) on antennal segment IV, and the position of the small sense cone is peculiar within the genus. It is situated inside of the outer major sense cone on dorsal surface of the segment. From simulans , it can easily be distinguished by the intermediate antennal segments paler, the pronotal anteromarginal setae reduced, the sub-basal wing setae S3 pointed or bluntly pointed, and the tube much longer than half of the head length.

Specimens examined. Japan (Honshu), the type series (see Okajima 2006: 599) .