Holopothrips tenuis Hood

Lindner, Mariana F., Ferrari, Augusto, Mound, Laurence A. & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2018, Holopothrips diversity-a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing insects (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 4494 (1), pp. 1-99 : 89

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4494.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5981418

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Holopothrips tenuis Hood
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Holopothrips tenuis Hood View in CoL

( Figs 266–269 View FIGURES 262–269 )

Holopothrips tenuis Hood, 1914: 52 View in CoL .

Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown; head clearly longer than wide, with maxillary stylets parallel; pronotal aa setae reduced and ml closer to anterior margin, one pair of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture striate anteriorly and reticulate posteriorly, bearing internal markings; pelta with thin elongate reticles medially; males with pore plates on sternites VII–VIII; female spermatheca very thin, not enlarged medially.

Comments. Described from Hura crepitans galls in Panama, together with H. signatus , the type species of the genus. Holopothrips tenuis is a medium to large-bodied species, with head longer than wide (but not as long as H. orites or H. permagnus ), large eyes. Males have pore plates on sternites VII–VIII, in the usual pattern of two anteroangular plates and one posterior transverse band.

Material studied. 1 male 2 female paratypes; Panama, Taboga Island , under surface of Hura crepitans leaves, 18.x.1913 (Zetek, J.), at BMNH and NMNH.

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Phlaeothripidae

Genus

Holopothrips

Loc

Holopothrips tenuis Hood

Lindner, Mariana F., Ferrari, Augusto, Mound, Laurence A. & Cavalleri, Adriano 2018
2018
Loc

Holopothrips tenuis

Hood, 1914 : 52
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