Liophloeothrips cecidii Ananthakrishnan

Tyagi, Kaomud & Kumar, Vikas, 2011, The Indian species of Liophloeothrips Priesner (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) with one new species, Zootaxa 2803, pp. 21-31 : 25-28

Liophloeothrips cecidii Ananthakrishnan

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Liophlaeothrips cecidii Ananthakrishnan 1964: 59 –60.

Liophloeothrips cecidii was first described in a key couplet to two species ( cecidii and vichitravarna ), but without any reference to specimens studied. A full species description first appeared in Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish (1969: 41), but without any illustrations, and this description referred to two females and one male, collected from leaf rolls of Morinda, Madras , July 1955.

We have studied one male labeled as Holotype. This specimen, labeled by Ananthakrishnan, is presumed to have been used in the original description, but as it was not mentioned in that description it is here formally designated as Lectotype. A female syntype bearing the data indicated by Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish has also been studied.

Specimens studied. Lectotype male (macroptera), India: Tamil Nadu: Madras, wild plant, June 1955, TNA 240. Syntype female (macroptera), India, Tamil Nadu, Madras, leaf rolls of Morinda , July 1955. Both specimens are at NPC.

Distribution. India (Tamil Nadu: Madras).

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 16. Liophloeothrips pelta. (8) L. ablusus, female macroptera; (9) L. amoenus, female macroptera; (10) L. cecidii, male macroptera; (11) L. reperticus, female macroptera; (12) L. curtus, female macroptera; (13) L. pavettae, female macroptera; (14) L. segnis, female macroptera; (15) L. succinctus, female macroptera; (16) L. vichitravarna, female macroptera.

FIGURES 17 – 22. Liophloeothrips head and pronotum. (17) L. ablusus, female macroptera; (18) L. cecidii, male macroptera; (19) L. curtus, female macroptera; (20) L. pavettae, female macroptera; (21) L. reperticus, female macroptera; (22) L. segnis, female macroptera.

FIGURES 23 – 31. Liophloeothrips mesopresternum. (23) L. reperticus, female macroptera; (24) L. curtus, female macroptera; (25 – 26) L. ablusus, female macroptera; (27) L. pavettae, female macroptera; (28) L. vichitravarna, female macroptera; (29) L. cecidii, male macroptera; (30) L. segnis, female macroptera. (31) Metanotum of L. succinctus, female macroptera.