The Panchaetothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) of Brazil, with one new Caliothrips species
Author
Lima, Élison Fabrício Bezerra
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Author
O’Donnell, Cheryle Ann
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Author
Miyasato, Elisa Aiko
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Author
Br, Pi.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-07-28
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4820.2.1
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Heliothrips
Haliday
This genus comprises four recognizable species, all native to South America but with
H. haemorrhoidalis
(
Fig. 125
) widespread around the world, and
H. longisensibilis
also known from
China
. A previous hypothesis suggested
H. haemorrhoidalis
was native to the Amazon basin, with
H. zucchi
and
H. similis
native to the Atlantic Rainforest in southeastern
Brazil
(
Mound & Monteiro 1997
,
Nakahara
et al.
2015
). But the records of
H. longisensibilis
(
Fig. 126
) provided here from several states in Central and Northern
Brazil
indicate that species in the genus may have evolved in different areas more broadly within South America (see
Xie
et al
. 2019
). Recent thrips surveys indicate that
H. longisensibilis
is widespread in Central, Northern and Northeastern states of
Brazil
, but that the name
H. haemorrhoidalis
can be applied only to specimens collected in south, southeast and areas close to the Northeast oriental coast, all in the biome Atlantic Rainforest. Some previous records of
H. haemorrhoidalis
might represent
H. longisensibilis
, including records of damage to plants as described by Lima
et al
. (2016) (
Fig. 134
). It appears that records of three of the four currently recognised species in this genus in
Brazil
are from Southeast and South. In central (Caatinga biome) and western (Cerrado and Amazon biomes) northeast, the only species recorded was
H. longisensibilis
, while
H. similis
was recorded in
Bahia (
Nakahara
et al
. 2015
)
and
H. haemorrhoidalis
in
Paraíba
and
Sergipe
. Collections from Northern
Brazil
(Amazon biome) included
H. longisensibilis
and also a potentially undescribed species. The members of this genus have the antennae 8-segmented, with simple sense cones on segments III and IV, and segment VIII long and slender (
Figs 41–44
). The fore wing apex is rounded, and the veinal setae very small.