Holopothrips tabebuia Cabrera & Segarra

Lindner, Mariana F., Ferrari, Augusto, Mound, Laurence A. & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2018, Holopothrips diversity-a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing insects (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 4494 (1), pp. 1-99 : 86-88

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4494.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5981416

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/190F8783-FF89-FF8A-D4C5-E09252281D39

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scientific name

Holopothrips tabebuia Cabrera & Segarra
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Holopothrips tabebuia Cabrera & Segarra View in CoL

( Figs 262–265 View FIGURES 262–269 )

Holopothrips tabebuia Cabrera & Segarra, 2008: 232 View in CoL .

Diagnostic features. Body mostly yellow, with head and pterothorax light brown, abdominal segments VIII–X dark brown; maxillary stylets parallel; one pair of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture formed by longitudinally elongate reticles, looking almost striate anteriorly; males with pore plates on sternites VII–VIII, two anteroangular plates and one posterior transverse band; female spermatheca s-shaped and not enlarged.

Comments. This species resembles H. inquilinus in general appearance, but H. tabebuia has the pronotum with only one pair of long epimeral setae instead of two pairs ( Fig. 262 View FIGURES 262–269 ), and its metanotum is sculptured with longitudinal and narrow reticles ( Fig. 263 View FIGURES 262–269 ). The transverse pore plate on sternite VIII is prolonged onto the tergite as in H. inversus and H. paulus . Larvae are pale and without red internal pigmentation. Recently introduced into Florida, H. tabebuia is a common species in the Northern Caribbean, where it possibly originated ( Cabrera & Segarra 2008). It has been observed inducing leaf-curling galls in a few Tabebuia ( Bignoniaceae ) species ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 10–15 ), and in some cases, causing the death of young plants ( Malumphy & Reid 2017).

Material studied. 1 male non-type; United States, Florida, Dade, Hialeah, 7925 NW 2nd Ct., in Tabebuia sp., 20.ii.2002 (Davis, L.), slide with code “E2002-0692” ; 1 female non-type; United States, Florida, Dade, Miami, 7061 SW 129th Ave., in Tabebuia sp., 4.iii.2002 (Putland, E.), slide with code “E2002-0691”; both at NMNH .

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Phlaeothripidae

Genus

Holopothrips

Loc

Holopothrips tabebuia Cabrera & Segarra

Lindner, Mariana F., Ferrari, Augusto, Mound, Laurence A. & Cavalleri, Adriano 2018
2018
Loc

Holopothrips tabebuia

Cabrera & Segarra, 2008 : 232
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