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 jaboticabae
(Hood)
(
Figs 122–124
)
Anoplothrips jaboticabae
Hood, 1954
: 54
.
Diagnostic features.
Body (except antenna) uniformly brown; maxillary stylets V-shaped; one pair of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture formed by irregular and elongate reticles, with few internal markings; pelta with weak constriction medially and lateral wings basally, few internal markings on sculpture; female spermatheca enlarged medially.
Comments.
Originally described in the monotypic genus
Anoplothrips
from female specimens collected from “jaboticaba”, a popular name used for at least nine different species, of which
Plinia cauliflora
(
Myrtaceae
) is the most common (
Mattos 1983
).
Holopothrips jaboticabae
is one of the few species of the genus that commonly lack the third pair of wing-retaining setae in some tergites, with the specimen observed in this study having them only on tergites IV–VII. Some other unusual features are the slightly enlarged fore femora; am, aa and ml usually small or reduced (
Fig. 122
); and the pelta being constricted medially, giving it a weak bell-like shape (
Fig. 123
).
Material
studied.
1 female
non-type;
Brazil
,
São Paulo
, in
Myrcia
sp.,
ix.1956
, at
NMNH
.