Genera of the leaf-feeding Dendrothripinae of the world (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), with new species from Australia and Sulawesi, Indonesia
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
Author
Tree, Desley J.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4109
5
569
582
journal article
39092
10.11646/zootaxa.4109.5.5
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1175-5326
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Ensiferothrips wallacei
sp.n.
Female macroptera
: Body light brown, femora and tibiae bicoloured, tarsi yellow; fore wing first vein with 5 large, black major setae, costal setae and apical seta also dark; enlarged major setae on head and pronotum much paler. Head with numerous small tubercles (
Fig. 26
), transversely reticulate posterior to ocellar triangle; ocellar setae pair III with longitudinal ridges, pairs I and II clearly fringed. Pronotum reticulate (
Fig. 26
), posteromarginal setae pairs I, III and IV longitudinally ridged, much larger than pair II; discal setae flattened and fringed. Metanotal median setae flattened and fringed. Fore wing veinal setae longitudinally ridged and fringed, costal setae smaller but flattened and fringed (
Fig. 27
). Tergite lateral thirds transversely reticulate with many small tubercles (
Fig. 25
). Sternite VII with all 3 pairs of setae arising in front of margin.
Measurements
(female
holotype
in microns). Body length 800. Head, length 60; width across eyes 130; ocellar setae
III 35
. Pronotum, length 75; width 150; posteromarginal setae
III and IV 35
. Fore wing length 500. Antennal segments III–IX length 25, 20, 20, 18, 7, 7, 12.
Material studied
.
Holotype
female,
Indonesia
, Sulawesi Utara
, Dumoga Bone N.P.,
8.ii.1985
, by insecticide fogging in lowland forest (BM 1985-10), in
BMNH
.
Paratypes
:
3 females
taken with
holotype
.
Comments
. The structural similarity to the Australian species
primus
is remarkable (see
Mound 1999
). More than
100 specimens
of
primus
have been studied (in ANIC), taken at various sites in eastern New South
Wales
and southeast Queensland, as well as Lord Howe Island,
Norfolk Island
and
New Caledonia
, and usually from the leaves of species of
Streblus
spp or
Trophis scandens
[
Moraceae
]. The fore wing chaetotaxy of these specimens has been found to be consistent, with only one large black seta on the basal stem of the fore wing first vein, in contrast to the two such setae in
wallacei
. Moreover, this new species was collected more than
3000 km
north of the known range of
primus
.