Enneothrips flaviceps Hood, 1955

Vieira, Daniel Elizeu, O’Donnell, Cheryle A. & Lima, Élison Fabrício B., 2024, Enneothrips Hood: a Neotropical genus of leaf-feeding thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with generic diagnosis and four new species, Zootaxa 5397 (4), pp. 563-577 : 571-573

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Enneothrips flaviceps Hood View in CoL

( Figs 8, 9 View FIGURES 1–16 , 21, 31 View FIGURES 17–34 , 41 View FIGURES 35–43 , 51, 59 View FIGURES 44–59 , 68 View FIGURES 67–70 )

Enneothrips (Enneothripiella) flaviceps Hood, 1955: 137 View in CoL

Body color yellow to light brown ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 1–16 ). Antennal segment I yellow, II medially brown with extreme base and apex pale, III–IV brown with a light base, V–IX brown ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 17–34 ). Legs yellow. Head yellow, ocellar triangle brown ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 17–34 ). Fore wing brown, with basal quarter lighter ( Fig. 51 View FIGURES 44–59 ). Abdominal tergites II–VII light brown medially and yellow laterally, VIII–X yellow. Ocellar triangle without sculpture, ocellar setae III just outside the triangle; posterior area of head transversely striate; mouth cone not surpassing prosternum. Pronotum transversely striate ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 17–34 ). Mesonotum transversely striate, about 15 lines of sculpture. Metanotum transversely striate anteriorly and reticulate posteriorly, without internal markings inside reticles ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 35–43 ). Abdominal tergites II–VII with around 10 transverse lines of sculpture on lateral thirds ( Fig. 59 View FIGURES 44–59 ); tergite VII with posteromarginal comb incomplete. Male similar ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 1–16 ), but smaller than female and with an opening close to antecostal ridge of abdominal sternite III associated with subcutaneous gland situated between sternites II–III ( Fig. 68 View FIGURES 67–70 ).

Material studied. Holotype female. Panama. Barro Colorado Island , on unidentified plant, 8.viii.1933 . Paratype females. Same locality, 14.viii.1933, miscellaneous vegetation, 14.vii.1933, one female; Same locality, on leaves of Machaerium purpurescens , 10.viii.1933, one female (J.D.Hood) ( USNM) . Additional Material. Panama. Barro Colorado Island , on leaves of Machaerium , 25.vi.1983, 14 females and two males (L.A.Mound col.) ( NHM) .

Comments. This is the palest species of Enneothrips . Unlike its congeners, the fore wing is almost completely yellowish, with some brown shading. It resembles E. enigmaticus , from which it can be distinguished by the characters presented in the key. The species breeds in Machaerium leaves and is recorded only in Panama.