Hood 1952 : 147
Arorathrips nigriceps (Hood)
Mound and Marullo 1996 : 94
Review of Chirothrips and related genera (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the Americas, with descriptions of one new genus and four new species
Nakahara, Sueo
Foottit, Robert G.
Zootaxa
2012
3251
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67SSX
Hood
Hood
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Insecta
Thripidae
Arorathrips
Animalia
Thysanoptera
8
9
Arthropoda
species
nigriceps
Chirothrips nigriceps Hood 1952: 147. Arorathrips nigriceps(Hood); Mound and Marullo 1996: 94.
Distribution: Brazil.
Comments: This species is known only from the holotypeand one female paratype. Antennal segment II is strongly angulate with rather straight anterior margin and resembles those of some Chirothripsspecies. The invaginations of the mesosternal furca are barely separated by about 7 µm. Abdominal sternites have tuberculate scallops and low lobes on posterior margin. The head is brown, pronotum is yellow with a medial pale brown longitudinal area, pterothorax is shaded light brown, abdomen and legs are yellow, and fore wing is light brown with pale base.