Anaphothrips desleyae, Mound & Masumoto, 2009

Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, Zootaxa 2042 (1), pp. 1-76 : 30

Anaphothrips desleyae sp. n.

( Figs 65–68 )

Female macroptera. Body and legs yellow; antennal segment I white, II pale brown, III–V pale brown with base variably yellow, VI–IX brown; fore wing lightly shaded; tergite IX major setae dark. Head with transverse anastomosing lines behind eyes, extending weakly into ocellar triangle; ocellar setae III on anterior margins of ocellar triangle; eyes without pigmented facets. Antennae 9-segmented; segment II with few microtrichia; III–IV with sensorium forked, VI pedicellate, suture between VI–VII transverse. Pronotum with about 20 transverse sculpture lines. Metascutum reticulate ( Fig. 65 ), median setae distant from anterior margin, MCS present. Fore wing first vein with about 9 setae basally, then about 6 setae irregularly placed to wing apex; second vein with about 12–16 setae including 1–2 setae basal to vein fork; clavus with 6–8 marginal setae. Abdominal tergites III–VII smooth medially; laterally with about 8 transverse lines with small triangular microtrichia, lines extend just mesad of S2 setae ( Fig. 67 ); VIII with long, fine posteromarginal comb.

Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1350. Head, length 75; width across eyes 135. Pronotum, length 115; maximum width 180. Fore wing, length 700; median width 50; first vein longest seta in basal row 15. Tergite IV S1 setae 10. Tergite IX, MD setae 12; PM S1 setae 65. Tergite X PM S1 setae 70. Antennal segments III–IX, 45, 40, 40, 32, 7, 7, 12.

Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite IX with one pair of short, stout setae medially, posterolateral margin with one pair of slender setae, posterior margin submedially with pair of slender spine-like processes ( Fig. 66 ); sternites III–VII with C-shaped pore plate ( Fig. 68 ).

Specimens examined. Holotype male macroptera, Queensland, Indooroopilly , from leaves of unidentified garden vine, 7.iii.2006 ( LAM 4849 ).

Paratypes: 4 males 5 females taken with holotype.

Comments. The females of this species are similar to those of A. epacrida , and share with that species and A. astrolomi the character state of setae present on the basal stem of the fore wing second vein. However, the fore wing veinal setae are considerably shorter (15 instead of 30), and the pronotal transverse lines of sculpture stronger. The chaetotaxy of tergite IX of males is different ( Fig. 66 ), but the slender spine-like processes on the posterior margin may be homologous with structures in a similar position in the males of A. dubius and A. epacrida .

Figures

FIGURES 64–72. Anaphothrips of Australia. (64) A. dalbyi antenna. A. desleyae 65–68: (65) clavus with meso & metanotum; (66) male tergite IX; (67) tergites VI–VIII; (68) male sternites. A. dubius 69–72: (69) male sternites; (70) male tergite IX; (71) larva II tergites VII–IX; (72) meso & metanotum.