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 flavitibia
Moulton 1932
Described from
Brazil
, this species was recorded from
Argentina
by
De Santis (1963)
. Re-examination of these Argentinean specimens indicated that although they share many characters with
flavitibia
they differ in the colour of antennal segments I–V. According to the original description of
flavitibia
these segments should be clear, but in the specimens identified as
flavitibia
by De Santis only segment III is clear. Although, colour might vary between samples of the same species, it seems more likely that the De Santis specimens belong to an undescribed species. Considering that there is no host information and insufficient material for an appropriate description of this species, it is included in the key above as?
flavitibia
.
Material examined.
ARGENTINA
, Cuesta de Chancani, Córdoba to
1000 m
,
8.xi.1961
,
1 female
collected by Mallo, in Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata, identified by De Santis.