Teuchothrips froggatti (Bagnall)

Mound, Laurence A., Dang, Lihong & Tree, Desley J., 2023, Structural diversity among the leaf-feeding thrips of Australia in the genus Teuchothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with 20 new species, Zootaxa 5383 (4), pp. 441-475 : 455

Teuchothrips froggatti (Bagnall)

( Figs 35–36 )

Mesothrips froggatti Bagnall, 1924: 637 .

Collected near Sydney in 1893 from leaf-bud galls on a species of Callistemon , this species was described from an unspecified number of both sexes. It remains known only from those specimens and the ones listed below. As noted by Mound (2008), the maxillary stylets are long and close together, mouth cone broadly rounded; postocular and four pairs of pronotal setae long and pale, pronotal anteromarginal setae scarcely longer than discal setae ( Fig. 35 ); fore tarsal tooth well developed and acute in both sexes; fore wing without duplicated cilia; tergite IX setae S1 finely acute, male setae S2 short and acute; male sternite VIII apparently lacking pore plate.

Specimens studied. In ANIC: New South Wales, Penshurst [Sydney], syntypes 1 female, 1 male from terminal leaf buds on Callistemon , 15.vii.1893 (W.W.Froggatt) ; Pipers Creek [50km northeast of Newcastle], 9 females with larvae from stem gall on Callistemon salignus , 8.x.2003 . In QDPC: New South Wales, Bellangry Forest [Port Macquarie 20km west] 4 females, 3 males from galls on Melaleuca salicina , 1.vi.2014 .

Figures

FIGURES 27–36. Teuchothrips of Australia. (27) T. clavipilus head. T. connatus 28–30: (28) head & pronotum anterior margin; (29) antenna; (30) metanotum & pelta. T. disjunctus (31) head. T. dodonaea 32–34: (32) head & pronotum; (33) antenna; (34) metanotum & pelta. T. froggatti 35–36: (35) head & pronotum; (36) metanotum & pelta.