Neohydatothrips hadrosetae Mound & Marullo

Lima, Élison Fabrício B. & Mound, Laurence A., 2016, Species-richness in Neotropical Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 4162 (1), pp. 1-45 : 25-26

Neohydatothrips hadrosetae Mound & Marullo

( Figs 30 , 49 , 71, 75 )

Neohydatothrips hadrosetae Mound & Marullo, 1996: 168 .

Female macroptera. Colour: mainly yellowish brown with brown head, median area of pronotum, anterior third of mesonotum, metanotum and fore wing clavus; tergites II– VII extensively light brown except for posterior fourth yellow; fore wing uniformly brown except for small pale spot medially on basal fifth; antennal segments I–II yellow, III light brown, IV–VIII brown.

Structure: Occipital apodeme not confluent with posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area apparently transversely striate; pronotum transversely reticulate with some broader reticles medially and indistinct blotch ( Fig. 30 ); mesonotum transversely reticulate; metanotum reticulate ( Fig. 49 ); metasternal plate with shallow emargination; fore wing first vein with long setae (about 50 microns) and second vein with no setae ( Fig. 71 ), clavus with three unusually stout setae ( Fig. 75 ); comb of microtrichia incomplete on tergites II–VI and complete on VII–VIII; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae.

Material studied. Holotype female, COSTA RICA, University of Costa Rica, on Brickellia argyrolepsis , 25.i.1992 ( BMNH) .

Comments. This species from Costa Rica remains known only from the holotype. It is very distinctive by its brown pronotum without a distinct blotch and the long fore wing setae.

Figures

FIGURES 24 – 31. Neohydatothrips species. Head and pronotum 24 – 29: (24) gaucho; (25) goianus; (26) gracilipes; (27) ikelus; (28) inversus; (29) luculentus. Pronotum 30 – 31: (30) hadrosetae; (31) lassatus.

FIGURES 41 – 49. Neohydatothrips species. Head and pronotum 41 – 44: (41) sulcus; (42) tibialis; (43) zucchi; (44) varius. Meso and metanotum 45 – 49: (45) basilaris; (46) chelinus; (47) hemileucus; (48) clavisetis; (49) hadrosetae.

FIGURES 67 – 79. Neohydatothrips species. Fore wing 67 – 74: (67) basilaris; (68) burungae; (69) clavisetis; (70) dosulis; (71) hadrosetae; (72) notialis; (73) paraensis; (74) renatae. (75) hadrosetae fore wing clavus. Tergites 76 – 79: (76) varius IV – IX; (77) inversus VII – IX; (78) clavisetis IV; (79) zucchi VII – VIII.