New taxa and new records of Australian Panchaetothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae)
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2292
25
33
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.191439
ae548dde-aa3e-4c6d-b70b-0608aa3f316a
1175-5326
191439
Bhattithrips dahmsi
Mound
This species was described from two females and one male collected at two sites in south eastern Queensland. However, single females identified as this species have now been studied from three sites in northern Queensland, Mossman, Cape Tribulation and Cape York. The antennae of the
type
specimens are unusually variable. In the
holotype
, segments V–VIII are fused, but in the female
paratype
there are distinct sutures between these segments. On segment IV of all three original specimens the sensorium is Y-shaped, but the length of the basal stem of the Y varies from short with the distal arms slender and curving around the base of the succeeding segment, to as long as the distal arms of the sensorium with these arms then less curved. On segment III, the sensorium is simple on both antennae of the female
paratype
, but on the
holotype
and male
paratype
this sensorium is simple on one antenna but forked on the other. One female from Mossman and two females from Cape Tribulation and Cape York have both sensoria forked from a short stem, long and curving around the base of the next segment. In the Cape Tribulation female, the distal segments are distinct from each other with the base of VI constricted, whereas in the Cape York female, the distal segments of the right antenna are completely fused, but those of the left antenna are distinguished by weak sutures.