Holopothrips jaboticabae (Hood)

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 : 52

Holopothrips jaboticabae (Hood)

( Figs 122–124 )

Anoplothrips jaboticabae Hood, 1954: 54 .

Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown; maxillary stylets V-shaped; one pair of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture formed by irregular and elongate reticles, with few internal markings; pelta with weak constriction medially and lateral wings basally, few internal markings on sculpture; female spermatheca enlarged medially.

Comments. Originally described in the monotypic genus Anoplothrips from female specimens collected from “jaboticaba”, a popular name used for at least nine different species, of which Plinia cauliflora ( Myrtaceae ) is the most common ( Mattos 1983). Holopothrips jaboticabae is one of the few species of the genus that commonly lack the third pair of wing-retaining setae in some tergites, with the specimen observed in this study having them only on tergites IV–VII. Some other unusual features are the slightly enlarged fore femora; am, aa and ml usually small or reduced ( Fig. 122 ); and the pelta being constricted medially, giving it a weak bell-like shape ( Fig. 123 ).

Material studied. 1 female non-type; Brazil, São Paulo, in Myrcia sp., ix.1956, at NMNH.

Figures

FIGURES 120–130. Holopothrips inquilinus, H. inversus and H. jaboticabae. 120–121. Holopothrips inquilinus paratype: (120) body; (121) head and pronotum; 122–124. Holopothrips jaboticabae: (122) head and pronotum; (123) mesonotum, metanotum and pelta; (124) tergite II, wing-retaining setae (white arrows); 125–130. Holopothrips inversus paratype: (125) head and pronotum; (126) prosternum, showing basantra (white arrows); (127) mesonotum; (128) metanotum and pelta; (129) pore plates on abdominal sternites VII–VIII; (130) pore plates extending towards abdominal tergite VIII (white arrows).