The Heterothrips species of Argentina, with two new species and biological notes (Thysanoptera, Heterothripidae)
Author
Borbón, Carlos Manuel De
text
Zootaxa
2010
2562
45
56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.197145
5c605700-e4bd-4e49-a83f-6aade07bdcb6
1175-5326
197145
Heterothrips myrceugenellae
Gallego 1973
Described from
Argentina
on
11 females
and
12 males
that were collected from
Luma apiculata
(=
Myrceugenella apiculata
) (
Myrtaceae
), a native plant of the southwest forests of
Argentina
and
Chile
. It is similar to
clusiae
from
Surinam
, and both species are light brown in colour, with ocellar setae III close together behind the first ocellus.
Material examined.
ARGENTINA
, Bariloche, Río Negro, on flowers of “arrayán”,
ii.1967,
2
female and
2 male
paratypes
, collected by Arona, in Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata.