Anaphothrips monga, 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 : 42-44

Anaphothrips monga sp. n.

( Figs 109–113 )

Female microptera. Body and legs brown to dark brown, all tarsi, apices of tibiae and median area of head paler; antennal segments I–II and V–IX brown, III–IV brownish-yellow. Head wider than long, with transverse sculpture behind eyes but none near ocelli ( Fig. 109 ); ocelli reduced, ocellar setae III within or near anterior margins of triangle; eyes without pigmented facets. Antennae 9-segmented; III–IV with small forked sensorium; II without microtrichia; VI with base narrowed and weakly pedicellate ( Fig. 111 ). Pronotum with transverse striae, but few small setae. Meso and metascutum transverse, campaniform sensilla present ( Fig. 112 ). Fore wing lobe scarcely longer than metascutal length. Abdominal tergites I–VII with transverse sculpture lines medially, VIII almost without sculpture; VIII with posteromarginal comb of irregular, short and partially fused microtrichia, spiracles occupying half of lateral margin of tergite ( Fig. 113 ); tergal setae S3 and S4 no longer than S1 and S2; setae on IX shorter than dorsal length of tergite X. Sternites with a few short microtrichia on sculpture lines laterally; setae S1 on VII close to posterior margin.

Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 980. Head, length 100; width across eyes 125. Pronotum, length 85; maximum width 165. Tergite IV S1 setae 7. Tergite IX, MD setae 10; PM S1 setae 40. Tergite X PM S1 setae 40. Antennal segments III–IX, 33, 25, 27, 27, 7, 7, 10.

Male microptera. Similar to female but smaller and paler; tergite IX with two pairs of short stout setae; sternites III–VII each with small, curved, weakly C-shaped pore plate ( Fig. 110 ).

Specimens examined. Holotype female microptera, New South Wales, Monga, from Bursaria leaves ( Pittosporaceae ), 13.i.1999 (LAM 3660).

Paratypes: 2 females 1 male taken with holotype and larvae; New South Wales, Newcastle, Thornton , 4 females 4 males with no host data, 25.i.1995.

Comments. The micropterous adults of this species have unusually large spiracles on tergite VIII ( Fig. 113 ). This character state occurs in several Australian Anaphothrips species , and is particularly obvious in the grass-living species A. moundi , A. varii and A. woodi .

Figures

FIGURES 106–113. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. incertus 106–108: (106) head & pronotum; (107) antenna; (108) male sternites. A. monga 109–113: (109) head & pronotum; (110) male sternites; (111) antenna; (112) pterothorax and tergites I–II; (113) tergite VIII–IX.