Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
text
Zootaxa
2011
3064
1
40
journal article
46148
10.5281/zenodo.200567
dbb812a3-60dd-4f6f-bb48-9e2ce120221a
1175-5326
200567
Striathrips
gen.n.
Diagnosis.
Macropterous
Thripinae
, Body surface with many closely spaced transverse striae (
Figs 94-97
); antennae 8-segmented, segment I with one dorso-apical seta, III–IV with long forked sensoria. Head with ocellar setae I absent; compound eyes with no pigmented facets. Pronotum with 2 pairs of posteroangular setae; pronotum, metanotum, tergites and sternites with numerous transverse striae. Prosternal basantra without setae, ferna complete; meso and metafurca without spinula. Fore wing with setal rows widely spaced, clavus with discal seta. Tergites II–VIII with craspedum of small lobes; IX with 2 pairs of campaniform sensilla, median dorsal setae short; X with no longitudinal split; sternites with weak, narrow craspedum, VII with all setae arising at margin.
Type
species
Striathrips sulcatus
sp.n.
Comments
. Relationships of the new species described below are far from clear. The lobed tergal craspeda and presence of one dorso-apical seta on the first antennal segment suggest a relationship to
Bregmatothrips
, but the tergal campaniform sensilla are placed far forward from the posterior margin of each tergite, and ocellar setae pair I are not present. The dense transverse striae on the tergites and sternites are unusual, but are reminiscent of
Amalothrips flacidus
from
India
, as illustrated by
Bhatti (1975)
.