Anaphothrips pultenaeae, 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 : 50

Anaphothrips pultenaeae sp. n.

( Figs 134–139 )

Female macroptera. Body and legs brownish yellow, antennal segment I white, II–IX brown with III slightly paler; fore wing weakly shaded. Head slightly wider than long; transversely reticulate behind eyes, with no sculpture near ocelli; ocellar setae III outside triangle ( Fig. 135 ); eyes with 6 pigmented facets. Antennae 9- segmented (rarely 8); III–IV with forked sensorium; II with no microtrichia; VI with short pedicel ( Fig. 134 ). Pronotum almost without sculpture ( Fig. 135 ). Metascutum with few elongate reticles, median setae near anterior margin, MCS present ( Fig. 136 ). Prosternal ferna not entire, with small gap medially. Fore wing slender, first vein with about 7 setae on basal half, 3 setae on distal half; second vein with about 8 setae including one seta basal to vein fork; clavus with 5–6 veinal setae and one basal seta. Abdominal tergites I–VII with no sculpture medially, median setae S1 small and weak, VIII posterior margin with 3–4 widely spaced slender microtrichia laterally, none medially ( Fig. 137 ).

Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1230. Head, length 90; width across eyes 120. Pronotum, length 100; maximum width 175. Fore wing, length 600; median width 35; first vein longest seta in basal row 18. Tergite IV S1 setae 5. Tergite IX, MD setae 5; PM S1 setae 70. Tergite X PM S1 setae 70. Antennal segments III–IX, 37, 35, 32, 35, 7, 7, 12.

Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite IX with 2 pairs of short stout setae medially ( Fig. 139 ); sternites III–VII with pore plate medially, C-shaped on anterior segments but only curved on VII ( Fig. 138 ).

Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, New South Wales, Bungendore, Brookhill, from Pultenaea subspicata leaves ( Fabaceae ), 21.xi.2004 (LAM 4507).

Paratypes: 6 females 1 male taken with holotype; New South Wales, Googong Dam, Queanbeyan , 3 females from dwarf legume with yellow flowers, 29.ix.2004. Australian Capital Territory, Black Mtn, 2 females from Pultenaea procumbens , 30.x.2002; Molonglo Gorge, Canberra, 7 females from Pultenaea procumbens leaves, 21 & 28.x.2000.

Non-paratypic specimens: 3 females 1 male, from Pultenaea ? yellow flowers, South Australia, Kangaroo Island, Cap Lyonais , 4.x.2007 .

Comments. This species is apparently quite common on low-growing Fabaceae of the genus Pultenaea around Canberra. The specimens listed from Kangaroo Island are very similar, but one female has no comb on tergite VIII, one has a single microtrichium on one side only, whereas the third has three or four on each side as in the holotype. The possibility remains that this is the same species as A. keatsi from Brisbane, but establishing that will require further field studies. It provides a further example of variation in the number of antennal segments, even the holotype having one antenna 9-segmented but the other 8-segmented.

Figures

FIGURES 130–139. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. parsonsiae 130–132: (130) head & pronotum; (131) meso & metanotum; (132) clavus. (133) A. sudanensis antenna. A. pultenaeae 134–139: (134) antenna; (135) head & pronotum; (136) meso & metanotum; (137) tergites VII–VIII; (138) male sternites; (139) male tergites VIII–IX.