Holopothrips diversity-a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing insects (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae)
Author
Lindner, Mariana F.
Author
Ferrari, Augusto
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Cavalleri, Adriano
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-04
4494
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journal article
29290
10.11646/zootaxa.4494.1.1
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Holopothrips chaconi
Zamora, Hanson & Mound
(
Figs 53–54
)
Holopothrips chaconi
Zamora, Hanson & Mound, 2015
: 1038
.
Diagnostic features.
Body (except antenna) uniformly brown; maxillary stylets parallel; pronotal am and aa setae very small, two pairs of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture formed by slightly elongate reticles, some with faint internal markings; pelta apparently without campaniform sensilla, or with short stout setae instead of sensilla; males with pore plates on sternites VII–VIII; female spermatheca enlarged medially.
Comments.
This light brown species was recently described from
Costa
Rica
, breeding in abandoned cecidomyiid galls in
Piper
spp. leaves. Males have irregular transverse pore plates on sternites VII–VIII, usually complete medially on VIII but broader laterally, always interrupted medially on VII. Larvae are pale yellow and lack red internal pigmentation.
Material studied.
Paratypes
:
1 male
,
Costa Rica
,
San
José Province
,
Zurquí
de Moravia
, in
Piper bredenmey
gall,
8.xi.2013
(
Zamora, S.
)
;
1 female
, same locality, in
Piper lanosibrae
gall,
7.viii.2013
(
Zamora, S.
); both at
BMNH
.