First record of Anaphothrips ponokikirmui Kudo, 1989 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from Russia

MATERIAL. Russia: Central Yakutia, environs of Yakutsk, Vilyui tract 13 km, 62°02 ́ N, 129°28 ́ E, Calamagrostis 21.07.2017 7$ (4 hemimacroptera, 3 microptera), 4# (2 hemimacroptera, 2 microptera); leg. Evdokarova T.G. Material is added to the collection of IBPC SB RAS (5$, 2#), Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1$, 1#) and to National Reference Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands (1$, 1#). DISTRIBUTION. Russia: E Siberia: C Yakutia; China: Heilongjiang; Japan: Hokkaido and Honshu. DESCRIPTIONS (measurements in micrometers) Female (micropterous) completely yellow (Fig. 1), with tip of rostrum and tip of abdominal X brown; body length 1370; head length 142, width 166; with transversely striae on posterior half; outside ocellar triangle; antennae 9-segmented (Fig. 2), length antennae 268; IV and V yellow, but darkening to the apex and VI–IX brown, segments III–IV with forked sensorium; III–VI with rows of microtrichia; VI with an incomplete oblique suture; all body setae yellow; pronotum without long setae (Fig. 3); pronotum length 130, width 186; with faint transversely striae on anterior and posterior parts; mesonotum with transversely striae, with 2 medial setae; metanotum reticulate sculpture, with medial setae on anterior third, without campaniform sensillae (Fig. 4); metascutellum some longitudinal striae, with some tergite III–VII medially with very faint sculpture, tergite II–VII with lateral serrations at posterior margin (Fig. 5); tergite VIII with complete comb with about 20 long hairs, tergite IX with S1 about 102 (Fig. 6);Wings are developed or short, grayish brown (Fig. 7). Male: yellow, micropterous with small round to oval pore plates on sternite III–VII (Fig. 8). ABSTRACT: Anaphothrips ponokikirmui Kudo, 1989 is for the first time recorded from Russia. Morphological description of this grass-living species from its close allies are provided. A. oroqeni Cui et Wang, 2019 is synonymized with A. ponokikirmui.