Genera of the leaf-feeding Dendrothripinae of the world (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), with new species from Australia and Sulawesi, Indonesia
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Tree, Desley J.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4109
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569
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4109.5.5
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1175-5326
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Dendrothrips notelaea
sp. n.
Female macroptera
: Head, body and legs mainly pale; pronotum, also tergites III–VII, with 2 pairs of brown spots on lateral thirds; tarsi and hind tibiae yellow; antennal segment I white, II dark brown, III–IV yellow, V yellow at base but distal segments brown; fore wing pale with two weakly shaded areas medially and sub-apically that do not form transverse bands, also a dark spot on posterior margin close to dark apex of clavus.
Head sculpture finely tuberculate (
Fig. 9
), with a few reticulate lines at posterior margin, ocellar setae III just outside ocellar triangle. Antennae 7-segmented (
Fig. 11
); sense cone on VI arising near apex of segment; sense cones on III and IV stoutly V-shaped. Pronotum with irregular transverse reticles of which the marginal ridges are flattened (
Fig. 9
), with no (or weak) markings within the reticles. Metanotal sculpture irregularly tuberculate/ reticulate (
Fig. 10
). Fore wing typical of genus, major setae scarcely longer than microtrichia, anteromarginal cilia arising ventrally well behind margin. Tergites III–VII posterolaterally with short longitudinal sculpture lines (
Fig. 12
), VIII with short marginal comb, IX with many discal microtrichia on posterior third.
Measurements
(
holotype
female in microns). Body length 950. Head, length 55; width across eyes 135. Pronotum, length 80; width 150. Fore wing length 650. Antennal segments III–VII length 30, 33, 25, 33, 10.
Material studied
.
Holotype
female,
Australia
, New South
Wales
,
50km
north of Narrabri, from
Notelaea
microcarpa
,
15.vii.1968
(LAM 722), in
ANIC
.
Paratypes
,
4 females
taken with
holotype
;
Queensland
, Carnarvon Station,
3 females
from leaf litter and tree bark spray,
14.x.2014
, same locality,
1 female
from
Melaleuca
leaves,
16.x.2014
; Stanthorpe,
1 female
from
Olea europaea
,
9.xi.2001
; Brisbane, Moggill,
1 female
in nursery,
8.xii.1997
; Brisbane, Mt. Glorious,
1 female
from
Cyathea
,
6.ix.2009
.
Comments
. This species shares a similar pronotal sculpture with
diaspora
and
victoriae
, as mentioned below under the latter species. The distal antennal segments are more foreshortened than in any other species of this genus from
Australia
, particularly in contrast to the condition found in
julatteni
and
victoriae
.