Thysanoptera: Thrips of Guam
Author
Moulton, Dudley
text
1942
1942-12-31
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin
Insects of Guam I
7
16
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/b172p7-16.pdf
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3634035
9c8d5683-76c1-4938-aede-b7ad5391b6b2
3634035
9.
Bolacidothrips orizae
,
new species
.
Female
holotype
: pale yellow with indistinct cloudings of gray on pterothorax and on abdominal segments 1, 2, 5, and 6; antenna! segments 1 to 4 clear yellow, 5 to
7 grayish
brown. Each forewing is darkened with gray at
extreme
base and has two dark cross bands which correspond with the gray markings on
thorax
and abdomen.
Total body length
1.14 mm
.; head length
0.147 mm
., width
0.132 mm
.; prothorax length
0.12 mm
., width
0.14 mm
.; spines on posterior angles of prothorax, outer 60, inner 40 microns; inner spines on anterior margin 23 microns. Antenna! segments length (width): I, 23 (26); II, 33 (23); III, 43 (16); IV, 40 (16);
V
, 40 (16);
VI
, 53 (16); VII, 18; total 250 microns.
Inarajan
,
June 25
,
on rice
,
holotype
female
, two
paratype
females, Usinger (5488).
This species is co-generic with
graniinis Friesner
but may be distinguished by its
darkened
fifth antennal segment and the uniformly light terminal segments of abdomen. In
graminis,
only the tip of the fifth antennal segment is darkened, and six is pale grayish in basal half.