Dactuliothrips boharti Bailey, 1937: 122

Pereyra, Veronica & Borbón, Carlos Manuel De, 2013, The American genus Dactuliothrips (Thysanoptera: Aeolothripidae) with three new species, Zootaxa 3734 (1), pp. 1-14 : 3

Dactuliothrips boharti Bailey, 1937: 122

Body dark brown; fore wings uniformly colored, but sometimes with a pale area near the base. Head with three pairs of long postocular setae of which the middle pair is smallest. Mesonotum with microtrichia; metanotum with one pair of setae on anterior margin, with microtrichia on median anterior area. Fore femur with 4–9 strong spurs on inner margin. Abdominal sternites covered with microtrichia, with about 10 discal setae; sternite VII with three pairs of posteromarginal setae and two pairs of smaller supernumerary setae. Male with longitudinal ridges on abdominal tergite I that do not reach the anterior margin. Images of this and the other California species are available in Hoddle et al. (2012).

Material examined. USA, California: Tehachapi Pass, 1 female, 1 male paratype, on Tarweed, 10.iv.1936 (R. Bohart); Tempe, 1 female, 1 male on Phacelia sp., 5.iv.1958 (K. O' Neill); Kern Co., North area Mojave desert, 1 female, on Phacelia sp., 2.iv.1995 (R. zur Strassen); Frazier Park, 1 male on Pine, 2.v.1952 (S. Bailey).