Neohydatothrips lassatus (De Santis)

Lima, Élison Fabrício B. & Mound, Laurence A., 2016, Species-richness in Neotropical Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 4162 (1), pp. 1-45 : 28

Neohydatothrips lassatus (De Santis)

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Sericothrips lassatus De Santis, 1966: 8 .

Female macroptera. Colour: body dark brown including femora and tibiae, fore wing dark with white sub-basal area, antennal segment I brown, II yellow, III basal half pale but apical half brown, IV with basal third light brown, remainder brown.

Structure: Occipital apodeme distant from posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area apparently without sculpture; antennal segments III & IV with short apical neck; pronotum with two pairs of prominent setae on posterior margin, anterior area transversely striate, blotch well-defined ( Fig. 31 ); mesonotum and anterior part of metanotum closely striate. Fore wing second vein with one (or two widely separated) setae distally; tergite VII with posteromarginal comb of microtrichia complete but short and irregular medially, on III–VI incomplete medially; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae.

Material Studied. ARGENTINA, Neuquén Province, Hua Hum , 5 females, 21.ii.1955 (Torres - De Santis) ( MLP).

Comments. This species is known only from 5 females from Argentina, probably near the border with Chile, given on the original slide labeled “ holotype ”. It is similar to N. clavisetis and N. novateutoniae , but darker.

Figures

FIGURES 24 – 31. Neohydatothrips species. Head and pronotum 24 – 29: (24) gaucho; (25) goianus; (26) gracilipes; (27) ikelus; (28) inversus; (29) luculentus. Pronotum 30 – 31: (30) hadrosetae; (31) lassatus.