The genus Hoplothrips in Australia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae), with eleven new species
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Wang, Jun
Author
Tree, Desley J.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-01-07
4718
3
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journal article
24425
10.11646/zootaxa.4718.3.1
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Hoplothrips corticis
(De Geer)
(
Figs 3
,
32
,
47
,
57
)
Thrips corticis
De Geer, 1773: 11
.
Female macroptera
. Body and femora brown; tibiae yellow shaded brown, tarsi yellow; antennal segment III mainly yellow, IV–VI variably yellow at base but not sharply bicoloured; fore wings weakly shaded toward apex. Head longer than wide, genae with several small, slender setae; postocular setae very long and pointed, wide apart; maxillary stylets retracted to eyes, close together medially (
Fig. 3
). Antennal segment III with 3 short, straight sense cones, IV with 4 sense cones (
Fig. 32
); VIII constricted to base. Pronotum without sculpture medially, with 4 pairs of very long, slender pointed major setae, am scarcely larger than discal setae (
Fig. 3
); prosternal basantra absent. Fore tarsal tooth large. Metanotum without sculpture medially (
Fig. 47
). Fore wing with about 10 duplicated cilia. Pelta with lateral margins confluent with anterior margin of tergite II (
Fig. 47
); tergites II–VII with two pairs of sigmoid wing-retaining setae; tergite IX setae S1 pointed, at least 0.8 as long as tube.
Female microptera
. Wings shorter than thorax width; antennal segment III sometimes with 2 sense cones; genae swollen behind small forwardly directed eyes.
Male microptera
. Large males with fore femora swollen; tergite IX setae S2 short and stout; sternite VIII with large pore plate that scarcely extends posterior to spiracles (
Fig. 57
), median longitudinal length of pore plate 50–60 microns.
Specimens studied. Queensland
, Bunya Mts,
9.iv.1993
,
2 female
micropterae from
Araucaria bidwilli
litter;
Norfolk Island
,
Selwyn Pine Road
,
6 female
macropterae,
3 female
micropterae,
1 male
microptera, from dead branches,
26.xii.2012
.
Comments
. Described from Europe where it is widespread (
Mound
et al
. 2018
), this species is known also from eastern North America and
New Zealand
(
Mound & Walker 1986
). In
Australia
, it has been reported from
Norfolk Island
(
Mound & Wells 2015
) and is here recorded from southeastern Queensland.