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
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10.11646/zootaxa.4494.1.1
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Holopothrips ananasi
Costa
Lima
(
Figs 22–25
)
Holopothrips ananasi
Costa Lima, 1935b
: 43
.
Diagnostic features.
Body (except antenna) uniformly brown; head long with well-defined reticulate sculpture, maxillary stylets retracted to compound eyes and touching medially; two pairs of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture formed by well-defined equiangular reticles; pelta with long lateral wings; males with pore plates on sternites VII–VIII, a transverse band posterior to discal setae on VII and three plates on VIII; female spermatheca enlarged medially.
Comments.
Originally described as a pest in pineapple, based on two collections in Southeastern
Brazil
from damaged leaves of the plant. The head of this species is unusual in being longer than wide, bearing small and welldefined equiangular reticulation dorsally (
Fig. 22
) and having maxillary stylets extending anteriorly to the posterior margin of eyes and touching medially (
Fig. 22
). Larvae are yellow but with extensive red internal pigmentation.
Material studied.
1 male
and
1 female
paratypes
;
Brazil
,
Rio de Janeiro
,
Deodoro
, in
Ananas sativus
,
15.vii.1933
(
Silva, A.
), at
NMNH
;
Cotype,
1 male
,
Brazil
, code 1203, at
BMNH
.