Species of Lissothrips and Williamsiella from mosses and lichens in Australia and New Zealand (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae)
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Tree, Desley J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3946
3
361
373
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3946.3.4
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1175-5326
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Lissothrips dentatus
Mound & Walker, 1986
: 66
(
Figs 3
,
17
)
This is one of the few members of the genus in which antennal segment III is almost as large as segment IV (
Fig. 3
), and for which fully winged adults are known. The original description of the female apterae refers to “curved wing-retaining setae” on tergites II–VII, but examination of six specimens from the same series as the
holotype
suggests that this statement was probably a copying error. Some of the tergites have a small, weakly curved seta in the position that a wing-retaining seta would be expected, but this condition is variable amongst the available specimens. The male
paratypes
have a small transverse pore plate on the eighth sternite. The female from Queensland listed below cannot be distinguished from the
New Zealand
paratypes
, but the two females from ACT have the median setae on tergites II–III longer, almost half as long as the median length of their tergite.
Material studied
.
New Zealand
, Whatipu, west of Auckland,
4 females
,
2 males
from yellow lichen,
26.ii.1979
.
Australia
, Queensland
, Tully Falls,
1 female
from dead branch,
4.vii.1995
.
Australian Capital Territory
,
Casuarina Sands
,
2 females
from lichen on
Leptospermum
branch,
3.xii.1994
.