Thysanoptera: Thrips of Guam
Author
Moulton, Dudley
text
1942
1942-12-31
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin
Insects of Guam I
7
16
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book chapter
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3.
Dinurothrips guamensis
,
new species
.
Female
holotype
: color golden brown darkened with black at sides of head and thorax; antenna! segments 1 and 3 to 5 clear yellow, 2 dark golden brown, 6 to 8 brown with
extreme base of 6 yellowish. Fore legs, hind tibiae and all
tarsi
light golden yellow, with sides of femora and tibiae more or less shaded with blackish brown; middle femora and tibiae dark brown, yellowish at tips. \Vings, especially the prominent veins, brown at base and with
brown
bands in
third
and fifth sixths, area between veins mostly clear; spines dark brown except distal one on fore vein, which is clear.
Head
clearly wider than long,
constricted abruptly
behind eyes; cheeks
arched
and narrowed
rather
evenly
toward
base; clearly
though
indistinctly reticulate near posterior margin. Eyes prominent, protruding, especially in front for about one
third
their length; ocelli approximate, anterior ocellus
directed
forward. Antenna! segment 2 widest, 3 and 4 more or less spindle shaped, 5 roundly conical, 6 and 7 closely joined, 8 long and slender; simple sense cones on 3 and 4.
Pronotum explanate at sides, reticulate; pterothorax broadly
rounded
at sides and narrowed posteriorly; mesonotum irregularly reticulate cross striate, with a distinct longitudinal suture; metanotum with a median triangular area which is striate longitudinally. Forewings strong, veins fused with marginal veins;
with
eleven spines on outer anterior
margin
of fused vein and with one near base and two near tip on inner side; with five irregularly placed spines on fused posterior vein. Each hind wing with a distinct median line
extending
to tip of wing. Abdominal segments reticulated at sides, clear in middle except for two or three transverse lines near anterior
margins
of segments 3 to 8. Spines at tip of abdomen short and stout,
otherwise
there are no conspicuous spines on abdomen., Total body length
1.12 mm
.;
head length
0.11 mm
., width at eyes
0.166 mm
., across
cheeks
0.160 mm
.; prothorax, length
0.102 mm
., width including explanate extensions
0.193 mm
.
Length
of spines on ninth abdominal segment 40 microns, at tip of tenth segment 26 microns,
which
is approximately one fourth the length of the segment. Antenna! segments,
length
(width): I, 33 (26); II, 33 (26); III, 40 (18); IV, 40 (20);
V
, 36 (22);
VI
, 30 (20); VII, 10 (10);
VIII
, 26 (5); total 216 microns.
Agana
,
June
26
, on
Cestrum pallidum
,
female
holotype
and
eight female
paratypes
,
0. H. Swezey
(
5464
)
.
D. guamensis
may be
separated
from
D. frontalis
Bagnall
by its brown middle legs, brown hind femora, also by the absence of black rings or "eye spots" on tergites three to seven. In
D. frontalis
,
the legs are yellow with femora slightly deeper in coloration especially the intermediate pair.