Neandrothrips dubius (Okajima), 2025

Neandrothrips dubius (Okajima) comb. nov.

Xylaplothrips dubius Okajima, 2006: 599–602 View in CoL .

This species was described from Ishigaki Is. and Iriomote Is., the Yaeyama-group of Islands, the Ryukyus, Japan, based on seven females and eight males taken from bamboo or dead leafy branches, and the feeding-habit is uncertain. It may be included in the pictipes -group and is somewhat similar to N. pictipes . However, dubius View in CoL has four (2+2) major sense cones on antennal segment IV and short and pointed prothoracic anteromarginal setae (rarely blunt or very weakly expanded, at least not distinctly expanded), though pictipes has five (2+2 +1), four major sense cones and one outer small sense cone and well developed and expanded anteromarginal setae. Moreover, the metanotal median pair of setae are somewhat wider apart from one another, the separation being almost as wide as the distance between those setae and anterior margin of the metanotum.

Specimens examined. Japan, Ryukyus, the type series (see Okajima, 2006: 601) .