Carientothrips loisthus Mound, 1974 a: 29
|
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.2 |
|
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C93F0714-35E6-46BE-8754-D5B17C4F7FF5 |
|
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4920220 |
|
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA87CC-FF96-236D-FF5A-FF40FC146C6C |
|
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
|
scientific name |
Carientothrips loisthus Mound, 1974 a: 29 |
| status |
|
Carientothrips loisthus Mound, 1974 a: 29 View in CoL
( Figs 5 View FIGURES 1–9 , 19 View FIGURES 16–20 , 40 View FIGURES 37–43 , 45 View FIGURES 44–46 )
Described originally from a single apterous female taken at Adelaide, South Australia, this species has subsequently been found widespread in eastern Australia as far north as Cape Tribulation in northern Queensland. Moreover it is common on Lord Howe Island, and has been taken widely in New Zealand ( Mound & Walker 1986). The major setae of this species are long and acute, as in the related species snowi , and the median pair of tergal discal setae are commonly longer than the more lateral pairs. These two species are similar to semirufus , although the tergal chaetotaxy is different as indicated in the key above.
Diagnosis. Apterous (macropterae rare), body brown to weakly bicoloured with head and thorax paler than brown abdomen, tube paler distally; legs variable in colour, tibiae usually yellowish; head longer than wide, projecting in front of eyes, postocellar and postocular setae long and finely pointed ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1–9 ); stylets about 0.5 of head width apart and retracted to postocular setae; maxillary palp segment I twice as long as wide, segment II slightly shorter than I; eyes variable, small or very small, with few ommatidia ventrally. Pronotal am and aa setae shorter than the other 3 pairs, notopleural sutures complete. Female without fore tarsal tooth. Metanotum with little or no sculpture. Pelta with broad median lobe broadly joined to lateral areas ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 37–43 ); tergites with less than 10 discal setae, wing-retaining setae usually long and straight ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 44–46 ); tergite IX setae acute, almost as long as tube. Males smaller than females, fore tarsal tooth present, large in large males.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.