Anaphothrips woodi Pitkin, 1978

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 : 58

Anaphothrips woodi Pitkin

( Figs 163–167 )

Anaphothrips woodi Pitkin, 1978: 367

Females of this species are not easily distinguished from those of A. moundi . The significance of the differences between them is difficult to assess, and the possibility remains that they represent a single variable species. Both species have been taken from grasses in damp places in south-eastern Australia, and both have been found on Mt. Kosciusko although not in the same collection. However, the males associated with the two names are readily distinguished from each other by the form of the sternal pore plates. Moreover, the sixth antennal segment is longer with almost parallel margins in A. moundi , whereas it has strongly convex margins in A. woodi . A series of both sexes taken on grasses and sedges in a damp area of Namadji, near Canberra, have the antennae slightly longer and paler than the type specimens from Mt. Kosciuszko, and the head more clearly sculptured.

Female aptera. Body, legs and antennal segments I– II yellow, III – V yellow with pale brown shadings, VI variably yellow at base, VII – IX brown. Head reticulate, weakly so in ocellar region ( Fig. 166 ); eyes with no facets pigmented or only weakly indicated; ocellar setae III variable in position. Antennae 9-segmented; sensorium simple on III, forked on IV; II without microtrichia (also III in type series); IV – VI pedicellate ( Fig. 164 ). Pronotum almost without sculpture. Mesonotum and metascutum transverse, MCS present ( Fig. 165 ). Abdominal tergites transversely reticulate medially, posterolateral margins smooth; II – VII with all four pairs of setae equally small, setal pair S4 arising in front of margin; VIII with narrow, irregularly lobed, craspedum; spiracles occupying almost half of lateral margins of VIII ( Fig. 167 ) .

Male aptera. Similar to female; tergite IX with 2 pairs of short stout setae medially; sternites III–VII with weakly C-shaped or curved pore plate ( Fig. 163 ).

Figures

FIGURES 157–165. Anaphothrips of Australia. (157) A. westringiae male sternites. A. whyalla 158–162: (158) antenna; (159) head; (160) pro, meso & metanotum; (161) tergites VIII–X; (162) forewing base. A. woodi 163–165: (163) male sternites; (164) antenna; (165) meso & metanotum.

FIGURES 166–171. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. woodi 166–167: (166) head; (167) tergites VII–VIII right margins. A. yalgooi 168–171: (168) head; (169) pronotum; (170) tergites V–VI; (171) antenna.