Convoluted maxillary stylets among Australian Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae associated mainly with Casuarinaceae trees
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
Author
Tree, Desley J.
c / o Queensland Primary Industries Insect Collection (QDPC), Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland, Ecosciences Precinct, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Qld, 4001
Author
Wells, Alice
Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-09-29
5190
3
301
332
journal article
156944
10.11646/zootaxa.5190.3.1
778903a5-ed35-4f28-a645-a768b11e3cd9
1175-5326
7138093
26F27376-45AB-4F13-ADCB-705CB3EB6E77
Enigmathrips carnarvoni
sp.n.
(
Figs 43, 44, 45, 46
)
Female macroptera
. Body light brown, anterior margin of head and anterior margins of tergites darker; all setae pale; legs mainly yellow; antennal segment I brown, II–VIII yellow with light shadings; fore wing uniformly shaded with apex and extreme base paler. With the generic character states given above.
Measurements
(
holotype
female in microns). Body length 3010. Head, length 300; width medially 175; po setae 105. Pronotum, length 350; width 300; prothorax width across coxae 550; major setae – am 50, aa 120, ml 115, epim 130, pa 125. Fore wing length 1450; width 120; sub-basal setae 100. Tergite V posterolateral setae 180; setae S1 on tergite IX 130. Tube, basal width 115; length 250. Antennal segments III–VIII length 100, 85, 85, 75, 75, 30.
Female microptera
. Very similar to macroptera in size and structure; fore wing lobe less than 200 microns long.
Specimens studied
.
Holotype
female macroptera,
Queensland
,
Carnarvon Station
, by barkspray
on
Acacia harpophylla
,
13.x.2014
(DJTree 1956), in
ANIC
.
Paratypes
:
one female
microptera collected with holotype
,
one female
similarly collected on same date nearby at
Piebald Spring Road
;
Lake Nuga Nuga
[
40km
East
of type locality]
,
2 female
micropterae by barkspray
on
Acacia harpophylla
,
8.vi.2014
(in
QDPC
and
ANIC
)
.