Glyptothrips claviger ( Hood, 1941 )

Lindner, Mariana Flores, Ferrari, Augusto, Lima, Élison Fabrício Bezerra & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2023, Morphological identification of Glyptothrips species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 5375 (1), pp. 31-57 : 40

Glyptothrips claviger ( Hood, 1941)

( Figs 14–18 )

This North American species has a mostly dark brown colouration and occipital setae capitate ( Fig. 15 ), a combination of character states only present elsewhere in G. floridensis —however, the latter has the head lateral setae also thickened and capitate, unlike G. claviger . These two species can be further differentiated by the colouration of antennal segment III, which is a similar shade of brown to other antennal segments in G. claviger ( Fig. 18 ), but bright yellow in G. floridensis ( Fig. 28 ). Further traits which can differentiate these species can be seen in Table 2 .

Known wing forms: micropterous.

Specimens studied. Holotype ♀; United States of America, New York, Oswegatchie , on dead grass and debris, 26.viii.1940 (J.D. Hood), at NMNH.

Paratypes one ♂ and one ♀, same collection data and depositary as lectotype .

Figures

FIGURES 14–18. Glyptothrips claviger, female holotype and paratypes. (14) Female. (15) Head, thorax and abdominal segments I–III; OC—occipital setae. (16) Abdominal segments VI–X. (17) Male pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII, a large plate covering most of the sternite. (18) Antenna.

FIGURES 28–30. Glyptothrips floridensis, male from type series. (28) Male. (29) Head and prothorax. (30) Abdominal segments VI–X, ventral view; sternite VIII with a subbasal pore plate.