Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Masumoto, Masami
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-03-16
2042
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1
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2042.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1
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Anaphothrips woodi
Pitkin
(
Figs 163–167
)
Anaphothrips woodi
Pitkin, 1978: 367
Females of this species are not easily distinguished from those of
A. moundi
. The significance of the differences between them is difficult to assess, and the possibility remains that they represent a single variable species. Both species have been taken from grasses in damp places in south-eastern
Australia
, and both have been found on Mt. Kosciusko although not in the same collection. However, the males associated with the two names are readily distinguished from each other by the form of the sternal pore plates. Moreover, the sixth antennal segment is longer with almost parallel margins in
A. moundi
, whereas it has strongly convex margins in
A. woodi
. A series of both sexes taken on grasses and sedges in a damp area of Namadji, near Canberra, have the antennae slightly longer and paler than the
type
specimens from Mt. Kosciuszko, and the head more clearly sculptured.
Female aptera
.
Body, legs and antennal segments I–
II
yellow,
III
–
V
yellow with pale brown shadings,
VI
variably yellow at base,
VII
–
IX
brown. Head reticulate, weakly so in ocellar region (
Fig. 166
); eyes with no facets pigmented or only weakly indicated; ocellar setae
III
variable in position. Antennae 9-segmented; sensorium simple on
III
, forked on
IV
;
II
without microtrichia (also
III
in
type
series);
IV
–
VI
pedicellate (
Fig. 164
). Pronotum almost without sculpture. Mesonotum and metascutum transverse, MCS present (
Fig. 165
). Abdominal tergites transversely reticulate medially, posterolateral margins smooth;
II
–
VII
with all four pairs of setae equally small, setal pair S4 arising in front of margin;
VIII
with narrow, irregularly lobed, craspedum; spiracles occupying almost half of lateral margins of
VIII
(
Fig. 167
)
.
Male aptera
. Similar to female; tergite IX with 2 pairs of short stout setae medially; sternites III–VII with weakly C-shaped or curved pore plate (
Fig. 163
).