Scirtothrips longipennis (Bagnall)

Mound, Laurence A. & Stiller, Michael, 2011, Species of the genus Scirtothrips from Africa (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 2786, pp. 51-61 : 58

Scirtothrips longipennis (Bagnall)

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Euthrips longipennis Bagnall, 1909: 173

Described originally from a greenhouse in Belgium, those specimens are apparently lost, and the identity of the species is based on two females labelled by Bagnall as “ Type ” but collected by him in England at about the same date ( Mound, 1968a). Those specimens have been compared to a few females seen from Australia ( Hoddle & Mound, 2003), and also the Cape Verde Islands (zur Strassen, 1993).

Diagnosis. Body yellow, head light brown at anterior; antecostal ridges dark on terga III–VIII and sterna V– VII; forewings strongly shaded in basal half, paler toward apex, clavus dark; antennal segments III–VIII dark. Ocellar setae III wide apart near margins of ocellar triangle ( Fig. 17 ); pronotum with transverse striae wavy and widely separated ( Fig. 17 ); posteromarginal setae S2 about 0.4 times as long as pronotum; forewing second vein with 2 setae; posteromarginal fringe cilia wavy except near apex of wing; metanotum longitudinally reticulate; terga V–VII with 3 discal setae on each microtrichial field; VIII with no discal microtrichia medially, IX with discal microtrichia on posterior half; sternites with microtrichial fields extending mesad almost to setae S2. Male not known.

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 23. Scirtothrips species. (17) S. longipennis, head and pronotum. (18) S. inermis, terga V – VI. (19) S. kenyensis, pro, meso and metanota. (20) S. mangiferae, terga IV – VI. (21) S. spinosus, head and pronotum. (22) S. spinosus, metanotum. (23) S. zuluensis, meso and metanota.