Identification of Haplothrips species from Malesia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae)
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-06-24
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4623.1.3
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Haplothrips timori
Mound & Minaei
Haplothrips timori
Mound & Minaei, 2007: 2962
(
Figs 6
,
12
)
This is an unusual species, of which very few specimens have ever been found. Described from a single male taken near Darwin in northern
Australia
, seven specimens are listed below that share most character states with this
holotype
. Amongst these specimens the setae on tergite IX are curiously variable. The
holotype
male has setae S1 and S3 capitate, with S2 pointed on one side but blunt on the other. However, the three males from Badu Is. have setae S1 and S2 more or less capitate but S3 long and acute, whereas the female collected with them has all three pairs of setae capitate. The two females from
Timor-Leste
have setae S1 capitate, S2 pointed and unusually short (10 microns), and S3 pointed but about as long as S1. The single female from South Australia is probably not conspecific, because the setae on tergite IX, also the pronotal epimeral setae, are very short and broadly capitate.
Specimens studied
.
Torres Strait Islands
, Badu Is.,
3 males
,
1 female
from
Coriandrum
,
18.xi.2009
.
South Australia
,
Adelaide
,
Mt George
,
1 female
from dead leaves,
19.xii.2005
.
Timor-Leste
,
Dili
,
1 female
from
Euphorbia hirta
,
20.ii.2005
,
1 female
from grasses,
21.viii.2018
.