Glyptothrips fuscipes ( Hood, 1954 )

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 : 46

Glyptothrips fuscipes ( Hood, 1954)

( Figs 31–36 )

This species can be differentiated from most other Glyptothrips species by its brown colouration (including legs, which in other species are usually yellow or at least lighter than the body; Figs 31, 33 ), and presence of rather thick and elongate capitate setae on all femora and fore tibiae ( Fig. 31 ). Other species in the genus may present this type of thickened setae at least on fore femora (e.g. G. claviger , G. silvaticus ), but they are not as elongate and numerous as in G. fuscipes .

Known wing forms: micropterous.

Specimens studied. Holotype ♀; Brazil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia , viii.1952 (F. Plaumann), at NMNH.

Paratypes one ♂ and one ♀, same collection data and depositary as holotype .

Figures

FIGURES 31–36. Glyptothrips fuscipes, female holotype and male paratype. (31) Female. (32) Head, pro- and mesonotum.(33) Thorax, mid and hind legs, and abdominal segments I–IV. (34) Abdominal segments V–X. (35) Antenna. (36) Male pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII, a large plate covering most of the sternite. ACS—antennal capitate setae; FT—femoral thickened setae; VL—ventrolateral setae.