Teuchothrips cleistanthi (Bournier)

Mound, Laurence A. & Goldarazena, Arturo, 2022, Antennal sense cone variation in Teuchothrips species of New Caledonia, with one new generic combination (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae), Zootaxa 5124 (2), pp. 238-244 : 239

Teuchothrips cleistanthi (Bournier)

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Hoplothrips (Odontoplothrips) cleistanthi Bournier, 1975: 323 .

The description of this species was stated to be based on the female holotype plus 14 females and 13 males, taken from nail galls on leaves of a species of Cleistanthus [ Phyllanthaceae ] at Koumac, Palachidji, near the northern coast of New Caledonia. It is one of the few species of Teuchothrips in which the maxillary stylets are about onethird of the head width apart, a condition shared also with T. kraussi . Transferred to Teuchothrips by Bournier and Mound (2000), it is particularly unusual in having a small tubercle at the inner apex of each fore tibia. For the present study, one male paratype was obtained on loan from Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Heads of paratypes of Teuchothrips species. (1) cleistanthi; (2) kraussi; (3) ornatus; (4) noumeaensis.