Anaphothrips barringtoni, 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 : 21

Anaphothrips barringtoni sp. n.

( Figs 29–31 )

Female macroptera. Body and legs yellow, antennal segment I white, II faintly shaded, III yellow, IV shaded at apex, V–IX palest brown; fore wings pale; tergite IX major setae pale. Head wider than long, with closely spaced sculpture lines behind eyes; eyes with 6 weakly pigmented facets; ocellar setae III outside ocellar triangle. Antennae 9-segmented; III–IV with sensorium forked, II without microtrichia; VI not pedicellate, suture between VI–VII slightly oblique ( Fig. 31 ). Pronotum with faint well-spaced, transverse lines; discal setae small. Metascutal sculpture reticulate; median setae fine and well back from anterior margin; MCS absent. Fore wing first vein with about 8 setae basally, 2 setae medially and 2 setae near apex; second vein with 9–11 setae; clavus with 5–6 veinal setae plus one seta at base. Abdominal tergites II–VII with no sculpture medially, lateral to setae S2 with about 7 lines bearing indistinct microtrichia ( Fig. 29 ); VIII with long regular marginal comb.

Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1100. Head, length 85; width across eyes 135. Pronotum, length 85; maximum width 150. Fore wing, length 600; median width 50; first vein longest seta in basal row 15. Tergite IV S1 setae 7. Tergite IX, MD setae 10; PM S1 setae 65. Tergite X PM S1 setae 50. Antennal segments III–IX, 35, 30, 32, 32, 7, 7, 10.

Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite IX medially with two pairs of setae scarcely thickened; sternite III with broad, weakly curved and transverse pore plate close to anterior margin ( Fig. 30 ).

Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, New South Wales, Telegherry, 25km south of Barrington , from Urtica leaves, 23.xii.2000 ( LAM 3974 ).

Paratypes: 6 females 2 males taken with holotype.

Comments. Females are very similar to those of A. barrowi from Western Australia, but the sternal pore plate of the male is much broader and less close to the antecostal ridge. The species was found within an area of moist forest, but the host association remains unknown, there being no native Urtica species in Australia.

Figures

FIGURES 24–31. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. augustae 24–28: (24) head; (25) tergites V–VII; (26) antenna; (27) meso & metanotum; (28) male sternites II–IV. A. barringtoni 29–31: (29) tergites V–VII; (30) male sternites III–IV; (31) antenna.