Holopothrips omercooperi (Bagnall)

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 : 72

Holopothrips omercooperi (Bagnall)

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Phrasterothrips omercooperi Bagnall, 1924: 633 .

Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown with fore tibiae yellow; maxillary stylets probably wide apart and low on head; one pair of long setae on epimeral region; mesonotal sculpture without internal markings; metanotal sculpture striate; males with three pore plates on sternite VIII only; female spermatheca not enlarged.

Comments. Described from Brazil, this species is very similar to H. affinis , with a few differences in body size and occurrence of male pore plates (only on sternite VIII in H. omercooperi , but on sternites VI–VIII in H. affinis ). It has also some similarities with H. kaminskii , but the new species has a unique bell-shaped pelta and males lack any pore plates.

Material studied. 1 female paratype and 1 male “ type ”; Brazil (Omer-Cooper, J.), at BMNH. Slides with code “No. 79, Bagnall Coll.”.

Figures

FIGURES 204–211. Holopothrips omercooperi, H. orites, H. paulus and H. pennatus. 204–208. Holopothrips orites paratypes: (204) body; (205) head; (206) spermatheca; (207) pronotum and mesonotum; (208) metanotum and pelta; (209) Holopothrips omercooperi paratype, body; (210) Holopothrips paulus paratype, body; (211) Holopothrips pennatus paratype, body.