Glyptothrips divergens ( Hood, 1957b )

Lindner, Mariana Flores, Ferrari, Augusto, Lima, Élison Fabrício Bezerra & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2023, Morphological identification of Glyptothrips species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 5375 (1), pp. 31-57 : 40

Glyptothrips divergens ( Hood, 1957b)

( Figs 19–24 )

This species has a rather elongate head, almost 1.5 times as long as wide ( Fig. 20 ). The only other members of the genus with similarly elongate heads are G. longiceps and G. saltuarius . This species can be differentiated by the large tube, which is longer than the head ( Fig. 19 ), while the tube is shorter than the head in the other two species. A unique trait within G. divergens is the shape of male pore plate: a transverse ellipse in the middle of abdominal sternite VIII ( Fig. 24 ). This contrasts with the more common pore plate shapes in Glyptothrips ( Table 2 ).

Known wing forms: macropterous.

Specimens studied. Paratypes one ♂ and one ♀; Brazil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia , under fallen leaves, ii.1953 – x.1955 (F. Plaumann), at NMNH .

Figures

FIGURES 19–24. Glyptothrips divergens, female and male paratypes. (19) Female. (20) Head and pronotum; PO—postocular setae. (21) Thorax and abdominal segments I–III; VL—ventrolateral setae. (22) Abdominal segments VI–X. (23) Antenna. (24) Male pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII, a transverse ellipse medially.