Teuchothrips sodalis Bagnall, 1929

Mound, Laurence A., Dang, Lihong & Tree, Desley J., 2023, Structural diversity among the leaf-feeding thrips of Australia in the genus Teuchothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with 20 new species, Zootaxa 5383 (4), pp. 441-475 : 472

Teuchothrips sodalis Bagnall

( Fig. 102 )

Teuchothrips sodalis Bagnall, 1929: 190 .

Recognition of a species to which this name might be applied is particularly difficult. The name is based solely on a single damaged male, and the original description is not helpful, the species being distinguished from its congeners by “size smaller” and “head 1.2 times as long as broad” (in contrast to only slightly longer than broad). The original slide bears the same collecting data as Teuchothrips minor ; Port Macquarie, from Melaleuca , 1900. No further specimens are available, apart from the female listed below. This lacks antennae, although these were described by Bagnall as segments 3 to 6 yellow. The specimen is from the Froggatt collection but bears a different date and collector to that of the holotype. The following details of the holotype male were provided by Mound (2008): postocular setae capitate, about 0.5 as long as distance between compound eyes; antennal segment III apparently with one sense cone, IV apparently with two; pronotal epimeral setae capitate, almost as long as distance between compound eyes; fore tarsal tooth long and slender; fore wing with seven duplicated cilia, the sub-basal setae in a straight row; tergite IX setae S1 capitate, about 0.8 as long as the tube, setae S2 about half as long. The illustration ( Fig. 102 ) is of the specimen listed here.

Specimens studied. New South Wales, Port Macquarie , 1 female from Melaleuca , 1901 (Brown), in ANIC .

Figures

FIGURES 96–106. Teuchothrips of Australia. T. simplicipennis 96–101: (96) head & pronotum; (97) antenna; (98) metanotum & pelta; (99) prosternites; (100) male sternite VIII; (101) tergites IX–X. (102) T. sodalis metanotum. T. soror 103–106: (103) head; (104) antenna; (105) metanotum & pelta; (106) prosternites.