Frankliniella caseariae Moulton, 1933

Miyasato, Elisa Aiko, 2017, The FranKliniella fauna of Brazil: additions and updated key to species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 4323 (3), pp. 391-402 : 392-393

Frankliniella caseariae Moulton, 1933

( Figs 2, 3, 8 , 14 , 26 , 39 )

Male macroptera. Colour: Head and thorax light brown ( Fig. 14 ); legs yellowish brown; fore wing brown with basal fourth weakly lighter; abdominal tergites I–VIII mostly brown with lateral 1/6 yellow, IX–X yellow ( Fig. 3 ); antennal segments mainly brown, except for segment III basal third yellow and apical two thirds shaded brown ( Fig. 8 ). Structure: similar to female ( Fig. 2 ), but with broad transverse pore plates on abdominal sternites III–VII ( Fig. 39 ).

Measurements (in microns): Body length 1190. Head, length 73 width 130; Ocellar setae III 55; postocular setae IV 25. Pronotum, length 108, width 163; Pronotal major setae, aa 68, am 68, pm 48, pa I 73, pa II 70. Fore wing length 650. Antennal segments I–VIII 20, 33, 48, 38, 33, 48, 8, 10.

Material Examined. Brazil. São Paulo: Campinas (Mata de Santa Genebra), one male and four females on Eupatorium laevigatum , 14.iii.1994 (F.L. Cônsoli), Piracicaba, one female on shrubs, 13.iii.1997 (R.C. Monteiro) (CHNUFPI and ESALQ) .

Comments. Frankliniella caseariae was described from one female ( Moulton 1933), but Cavalleri and Mound (2012) recorded some more females; the male described here is the first known of this species. The specimen is structurally very similar to females, but paler, as is usual in other dark-bodied Frankliniella species.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 13. Frankliniella species. Body 1 – 6: (1) bambusae (female); (2) caseariae (female); (3) caseariae (male); (4) catharinensis (female); (5) catharinensis (male); (6) piauhyensis (female). Antenna 7 – 10: (7) bambusae; (8) caseariae; (9) catharinensis; (10) piauhyensis. Antennal segments I – IV 11 – 13: (11) borinquen; (12) parvula; (13) tritici.

FIGURES 14 – 24. Frankliniella species. (14) Head and pronotum of caseariae (male). Head 15 – 19: (15) bambusae; (16) catharinensis; (17) parvula; (18) piauhyensis; (19) tritici. Pronotum 20 – 23: (20) bambusae; (21) catharinensis; (22) piauhyensis; (23) tritici. (24) Fore wing of catharinensis.

FIGURES 25 – 36. Frankliniella species. Meso- and metanotum 25 – 29: (25) bambusae; (26) caseariae; (27) catharinensis; (28) parvula; (29) piauhyensis. (30) Tergites VII – X of bambusae. Tergite VIII 31 – 36: (31) caseariae (female); (32) caseariae (male); (33) catharinensis; (34) parvula; (35) piauhyensis; (36) tritici.

FIGURES 37 – 41. Frankliniella species. (37) Sternites II – IV of bambusae (female); (38) Sternites V – VII of piauhyensis (male); (39) Sternites IV – VI of caseariae (male); (40) Sternite II of catharinensis (female); (41) Sternite III of catharinensis (female); (42) Sternite IV of catharinensis (male); (43) Sternites II – IV of magellanica (female); (44) Sternites II – III of valdiviana (female); (45) Fore wing of australis; (46) Head and pronotum of magellanica; (47) Meso- and metanotum of tympanona.