Deplorothrips

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2016, Australian mycophagous species of the genus Deplorothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae), Zootaxa 4208 (3), pp. 201-220 : 208-209

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6078214

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scientific name

Deplorothrips
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Key to species of Deplorothrips View in CoL from Australia

1. Metanotum with more than one pair of setae medially ( Figs 1 View FIGURES 1 – 7 , 36 View FIGURES 33 – 47 ); male sternite VIII with broad pore plate ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 33 – 47 ).................................................................................................. villosus View in CoL sp.n.

-. Metanotum with one pair of setae medially ( Figs 3–5 View FIGURES 1 – 7 ; 33–35); male sternite VIII with pore plate smaller or absent....... 2

2. Head anterior margin yellow to light brown between the eyes ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1 – 7 ); metanotum longitudinally sculptured; male with no pore plate.................................................................................... virgulatus View in CoL sp.n.

-. Head uniformly brown; metanotum either reticulate or with no sculpture between the major setal pair; males, where known, with small pore plate on sternite VIII......................................................................3

3. Metanotum strongly reticulate ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 33 – 47 ); male with narrow pore plate extending fully across sternite VIII to lateral margins.............................................................................................. retis View in CoL sp.n.

-. Metanotum weakly reticulate or with no sculpture between median setal pair; male pore plate on sternite VIII much smaller, not extending to lateral margins......................................................................... 4

4. Antennal segment VIII lanceolate ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 20 – 32 ), microptera with IV as yellow as III, but macroptera with IV brown; IV and V of macroptera with numerous sensory hairs ventrally [pronotal am sometimes capitate; male with small sub-circular pore plate on VIII ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 33 – 47 )]........................................................................... diaphorus View in CoL sp.n.

-. Antennal segment VIII never lanceolate ( Figs 21–30 View FIGURES 20 – 32 ), macroptera without extra sensory hairs on antennal segments IV and V................................................................................................... 5

5. Antennal segment V–VI largely yellow ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 20 – 32 ); male unknown..................................... paspalus View in CoL sp.n.

-. Antennal segments V–VI uniformly brown or with V slightly paler at base........................................ 6

6. Mid and hind tibiae, also usually antennal segment III, clear yellow............................................. 7

-. Mid and hind tibiae, also antennal segment III, brown or at least washed with brown............................... 9

7. Median area of tergites VI–VIII extensively yellow; pronotal am setae longer than discal setae and about 0.5 times as long as aa setae, blunt to weakly capitate ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1 – 7 )......................................................... regina View in CoL sp.n.

-. Median area of tergites VI–VIII almost uniformly brown; pronotal am setae no larger than discal setae..................8

8. Stylets retracted into head half way to po setae ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 8 – 13 ); male sternite VIII with slender transverse pore plate ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 33 – 47 )................................................................................................. howei View in CoL sp.n.

-. Stylets low in head, wide apart and straight ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 1 – 7 ); male sternite VIII with round pore plate ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 33 – 47 )........ makrus View in CoL sp.n.

9. Tergite IX setae S1 finely acute and longer than tube................................................. minaei View in CoL sp.n.

-. Tergite IX setae S1 capitate, rarely bluntly pointed, less than 0.75 times as long tube.............................. 10

10. Male sternite VIII with pore plate strongly transverse, 5–6 times as wide as median length ( Fig. 43 View FIGURES 33 – 47 ); both sexes micropterous, but with wing lobe scarcely 20 microns long; antennal segments III and IV each with 2 sense cones.......... mongai View in CoL sp.n.

-. Male sternite VIII with pore plate transversely oval, less than 2.5 times as wide as median length ( Figs 38, 39 View FIGURES 33 – 47 ); if micropterous, then wing lobe at least 50 microns long; frequently with antennal segment III bearing 3 sense cones, and IV with 4...... 11

11. Maxillary stylets retracted to level of po setae, sub-parallel medially in head and less than one fifth of head width apart ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 8 – 13 )........................................................................................ deuae View in CoL sp.n.

-. Maxillary stylets less deeply retracted, at least one third of head width apart and not parallel medially ( Figs 8, 9 View FIGURES 8 – 13 )........ 12

12. Mid and hind tibiae extensively brown; antennal segment III with 3 sense cones, IV with 4; micropterae and macropterae............................................................................................. capitalis View in CoL sp.n.

-. Mid and hind tibiae yellowish, at least on basal third; number of sense cones commonly different; apterae and macropterae13

13. Both sexes with pronotal am setae acute and scarcely 7 microns long; male sternite VIII pore plate broadly oval ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 33 – 47 )............................................................................................. chydaeus View in CoL sp.n.

-. Female with pronotal am setae weakly capitate and 15–27 microns long; male sternite VIII pore plate subcircular.................................................................................................... norfuki View in CoL sp.n.

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