Anaphothrips yalgooi, 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 : 58-59

Anaphothrips yalgooi sp. n.

( Figs 168–171 )

Female macroptera. Body and legs yellow with brown markings; tergites II–VIII brown medially and across anterior half; mesonotum and metascutum brown laterally; pronotum with brown markings; antennal segment I white, II dark brown, III and basal half of IV brownish yellow, V–IX light brown; wings faintly shaded; tergite IX setae light brown. Head wider than long, with closely spaced sculpture lines behind eyes; eyes with 6 weakly pigmented facets; ocellar setae III just outside ocellar triangle ( Fig. 168 ). Antennae 9-segmented; III–IV with sensorium forked, II with three rows of microtrichia; VI not pedicellate, suture between VI–VII oblique ( Fig. 171 ). Pronotum with irregular transverse lines of sculpture; posteromarginal setae S1 larger than remaining setae ( Fig. 169 ). Metascutal sculpture reticulate, lines with slight craspedal flanges; median setae fine and well back from anterior margin; MCS absent. Prosternal ferna almost complete medially. Fore wing relatively broad, first vein with about 15 setae basally, 2 setae medially and 2 setae near apex; second vein with about 16 setae; clavus with 6 veinal setae and one basal seta. Abdominal tergites V–VII with no sculpture medially, II–IV with some lines medially; tergites laterally with up to 10 striae bearing numerous pale ciliate microtrichia with triangular bases, sculpture extending mesad of setae S2 almost to campaniform sensilla ( Fig. 170 ); VIII with long regular marginal comb; IX with many transverse sculpture lines. Sternite VII median setae close to posterior margin.

Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1380. Head, length 90; width across eyes 155. Pronotum, length 120; maximum width 185. Fore wing, length 730; median width 60; first vein longest seta in basal row 30. Tergite IV S1 setae 15. Tergite IX, MD setae 12; PM S1 setae 85. Tergite X PM S1 setae 75. Antennal segments III–IX, 42, 37, 37, 32, 10, 10, 12.

Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite lateral sculpture lines with distinct craspeda but not microtrichia; IX with median setae not stout; sternites with no pore plates.

Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, Western Australia, 63km south-west of Yalgoo, from leaves of Eremophila species (Myoporaceae) , 26.iv.1997 (LAM 3238).

Paratypes: 2 females 1 male taken with holotype.

Comments. Although the metascutal sculpture is similar to that of A. geijerae , that species has a neat transverse suture between antennal segments VI–VII, and also lacks pigmented eye facets.

Figures

FIGURES 166–171. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. woodi 166–167: (166) head; (167) tergites VII–VIII right margins. A. yalgooi 168–171: (168) head; (169) pronotum; (170) tergites V–VI; (171) antenna.