Holopothrips diversity-a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing insects (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) Author Lindner, Mariana F. Author Ferrari, Augusto Author Mound, Laurence A. Author Cavalleri, Adriano text Zootaxa 2018 2018-10-04 4494 1 1 99 journal article 29290 10.11646/zootaxa.4494.1.1 ceb3ba80-3c38-4d93-97f1-ee98e52d1204 1175-5326 1445182 872F6F63-26E4-4CEC-B0EC-106B96D693FD Holopothrips omercooperi (Bagnall) ( Fig. 209 ) Phrasterothrips omercooperi Bagnall, 1924 : 633 . Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown with fore tibiae yellow; maxillary stylets probably wide apart and low on head; one pair of long setae on epimeral region; mesonotal sculpture without internal markings; metanotal sculpture striate; males with three pore plates on sternite VIII only; female spermatheca not enlarged. Comments. Described from Brazil , this species is very similar to H. affinis , with a few differences in body size and occurrence of male pore plates (only on sternite VIII in H. omercooperi , but on sternites VI–VIII in H. affinis ). It has also some similarities with H. kaminskii , but the new species has a unique bell-shaped pelta and males lack any pore plates. Material studied. 1 female paratype and 1 male “ type ”; Brazil (Omer-Cooper, J.), at BMNH . Slides with code “No. 79, Bagnall Coll.”.