Anaphothrips eremophilae, 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 : 34

Anaphothrips eremophilae sp. n.

( Figs 80–82 )

Female macroptera. Body largely medium brown; antennal segment I pale, II dark brown, III–IX evenly light brown; wings slightly shaded; tergite IX setae dark brown. Head wider than long, with transverse sculpture lines behind eyes ( Fig. 81 ); eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocellar setae III just outside ocellar triangle, anterolateral to hind ocelli. Antennae 9-segmented; II with few microtrichia; III–IV with small forked sensorium; VI constricted at base but not pedicellate, suture between VI–VII oblique, weak, and sometimes incomplete ( Fig. 80 ). Pronotum with weak lines of sculpture, fewer than 10 pairs of setae; posteromarginal setae S1 slightly larger than remaining marginal setae. Metascutum irregularly reticulate; median setae fine and well back from anterior margin; MCS absent. Prosternal ferna undivided medially. Fore wing first vein with about 10 setae irregularly spaced on basal half, 2 setae on distal half; second vein with 7–10 setae; clavus with 4–7 veinal setae and one basal seta. Abdominal tergites I–VIII with transverse sculpture medially, with no ciliate microtrichia on lateral sculpture lines ( Fig. 82 ); tergites IV–VIII with S1 and S2 setae relatively close to posterior margin; VIII with long regular marginal comb, spiracular area slightly enlarged; IX with many transverse sculpture lines. Sternite VII median setae anterior to margin.

Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1050. Head, length 80; width across eyes 125. Pronotum, length 100; maximum width 140. Fore wing, length 580; median width 50; first vein longest seta in basal row 15. Tergite IV S1 setae 10. Tergite IX PM S1 setae 75. Tergite X PM S1 setae 65. Antennal segments III–IX, 38, 30, 33, 33, 7, 7, 12.

Female hemimacroptera. Wing longer than width of pterothorax; one specimen has a single MCS.

Female microptera. Wing shorter than width of pterothorax.

Male microptera. Pronotal sculpture weaker than in female; abdominal tergite VIII with posteromarginal comb; tergite IX with median two pairs of setae not stout; sternite III with a oblong glandular area close to antecostal line.

Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, Western Australia, 11km SW of Morawa , from Eremophila leaves, 26.iv.1997 ( LAM3241 ).

Paratypes: 9 females 1 male taken with holotype.

Comments. Despite the darker body colour and transverse sculpture across the abdominal tergites, this species is probably closely related to several other members of this genus that are found in the arid zone. It is similar in the form of the antennae to species such as A. barrowi and A. barringtoni described above. Unlike such species, the lateral tergal sculpture lines do not bear any microtrichia, and the metascutal sculpture lines bear weak flanges.

Figures

FIGURES 73–82. Anaphothrips of Australia. (73) A. dubius tergites VI–VIII. A. epacrida 74–77: (74) male sternites; (75) male tergite IX; (76) antenna; (77) forewing base. A. exocarpi 78–79: (78) forewing base with meso & metanotum; (79) antenna. A, eremophilae 80-82: (80) antenna; (81) head; (82) tergites VI–VIII.