Structural diversity among the leaf-feeding thrips of Australia in the genus Teuchothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with 20 new species
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
Author
Dang, Lihong
School of Bioscience and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, 723000, China
Author
Tree, Desley J.
0000-0002-7704-7750
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-12-13
5383
4
441
475
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5383.4.2/52464
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5383.4.2
1175-5326
10369631
FEA4003A-A05E-49B0-83C9-15C5DF1BA1BA
Teuchothrips soror
(Hood)
(
Figs 103–106
)
Rhynchothrips soror
Hood, 1918: 138
.
This species was transferred to the genus
Teuchothrips
in an account of the
Liothrips
species from Australia (
Mound
et al
. 2023
). It is known only from a single female that was collected by Girault in 1913, near Cairns in northern Queensland. Hood described this specimen as bearing a long, hooked tooth on the fore tarsus. Although macropterous, the pelta and metanotum of the
holotype
are unusually broad (
Figs 105
), such as would be expected in a micropterous individual. The images (
Figs 103-106
) are of the
holotype
in the
USNM
, Washington, and were kindly prepared by Elison Lima.