Holopothrips diversity-a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing insects (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) Author Lindner, Mariana F. Author Ferrari, Augusto Author Mound, Laurence A. Author Cavalleri, Adriano text Zootaxa 2018 2018-10-04 4494 1 1 99 journal article 29290 10.11646/zootaxa.4494.1.1 ceb3ba80-3c38-4d93-97f1-ee98e52d1204 1175-5326 1445182 872F6F63-26E4-4CEC-B0EC-106B96D693FD Holopothrips mariae Mound & Marullo ( Figs 183–187 ) Holopothrips mariae Mound & Marullo, 1996 : 298 . Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown; maxillary stylets V-shaped; usually one pair of long setae on epimeral region, sometimes a second smaller seta present; basantra present; metanotal sculpture formed by elongate reticulation, with very faint internal markings in some reticles; setal pairs S1–S3 on tergite IX with acute apex; males with pore plates on segments VI–VIII; female spermatheca enlarged medially. FIGURES 183–190. Holopothrips mariae and H. molzi . 183–187. Holopothrips mariae paratypes: (183) body; (184) head and pronotum; (185) mesonotum, metanotum and pelta; (186) spermatheca; (187) prosternum, showing basantra (white arrows); 188–190. Holopothrips molzi paratypes: (188) body; (189) head and prosternum; (190) pronotum, mesonotum, metanotum, pelta and abdominal tergite II. Comments. This is a small-bodied member of the genus (observed specimens less than 1900 µm long), with short head and antennae and V-shaped maxillary stylets in the head ( Fig. 184 ). According to Mound and Marullo (1996) , the length of am setae on pronotum is highly variable, as well as the presence of a second pair of long setae on the epimera. Most type specimens have only two sense cones on antennal segments III–IV, but at least one specimen with a third sense cone on antennal segment III was recorded. Males have a slender transverse pore plate on sternites VI–VIII, with VIII also having paired anterolateral pore plates. It was described from specimens collected by fogging in Amazonian floodplain forest in Peru . Material studied. 1 male and 1 female paratypes ; Peru , Madre de Dios , Rio Tambopata Reserve , 30 km S.W. of Pto. Maldonato, 290 m ( 12°50’S 69°20’W ), fogging from ground on primary floodplain, 27.x.1983 ( Stork, N. ), at BMNH .