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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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2042.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1
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Anaphothrips nimbus
sp. n.
(
Figs 117–119
)
Female macroptera
. Body and legs light brown, tarsi and tibiae mainly yellow; antennal segments I–II and IV–VIII brown, III paler but with apex shaded; fore wing pale with median brown band. Head wider than long, with transverse lines on posterior third, ocellar region without sculpture (
Fig. 118
); ocellar setae III anterior to posterior ocelli, just outside triangle; eyes with 6 weakly pigmented facets. Antennae 8-segmented, III–IV with sensorium forked; II–III without microtrichia; VI weakly pedicellate; VIII longer than VII (
Fig. 119
). Pronotum almost without sculpture. Mesonotum with few transverse lines. Metascutum irregularly reticulate, median setae behind anterior margin; MCS present medially. Fore wing first vein with about 7 setae on basal half, 2 setae medially, 2 setae distally; second vein with 8–9 setae including 1–2 basal to vein fork; clavus with 6 veinal setae including one seta at base. Tergites I–II fully sculptured medially, III–VI with faint lines between median setae; VIII with comb long but irregular, spiracles large (
Fig. 117
).
Measurements
(
holotype
, in microns). Body length 1150. Head, length 90; width across eyes 125. Pronotum, length 115; maximum width 165. Fore wing, length 560; median width 35; first vein longest seta in basal row 20. Tergite IV S1 setae 12. Tergite IX, MD setae 10; PM S1 setae 80. Tergite X PM S1 setae 65. Antennal segments III–VIII, 40, 30, 30, 42, 10, 15.
Male unknown.
Specimens examined
.
Holotype
female macroptera,
Queensland
,
Lamington
,
Werrikimbe
, fogging
Nothofagus moorei
,
10.xii.1990
(
R
.Kitching).
Paratypes
:
7 females
taken with
holotype
.
Comments.
Judging from the shape of the head, but despite the enlarged spiracles on tergites I and VIII, this species with 8-segmented antennae is not related to the grass-living members of
Anaphothrips
. It possibly lives on the leaves of the trees from which it was obtained by insecticide fogging. The pale fore wing with transverse shaded band is particularly unusual.