Horistothrips platygaster (Karny)

Mound, Laurence A., 2008, Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre- 1930, Zootaxa 1714, pp. 41-60 : 45

Horistothrips platygaster (Karny)

Aspidothrips platygaster Karny, 1920: 39

Horistothrips platygaster (Karny) ; Mound & Houston, 1987: 15 Horistothrips calvus Karny, 1920: 39 syn.n.

Horistothrips impennis Karny, 1920: 39 syn.n.

Horistothrips ischnosoma Karny, 1920: 39 syn.n.

Karny described A. platygaster from a single micropterous female, collected in “N. W. Australien ”. This specimen has now been compared with the original ( Fig 8 ) two specimens of H. calvus (male and female micropterae), also the original two specimens of H. impennis (male and female micropterae), these four specimens having been collected in the Kimberley region of north western Australia. All five specimens are here considered to represent the same species, the differences noted by Karny being due, primarily, to different degrees of contraction of the body prior to slide mounting. H. ischnosoma was based on two severely damaged specimens collected in the Kimberley Region of Australia. The female with the whole thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 6 ) is here designated Lectotype and is considered to be a small platygaster , but the second specimen with the abdomen missing ( Fig. 7 ) is possibly a different species.

Figures

FIGURES 3 – 9. Horistothrips species. H. australis 3 – 5: (3) Head & pronotum; (4) Mesonota & pelta; (5) Thoracic sternites. H. ischnosoma 6 – 7: (6) Lectotype female; (7) Paralectotype. (8) H. calvus syntype male, pronotum to tergite II. (9) Type slide of thoreauini and corticis.