Glyptothrips hylaeus ( Hood, 1950 )

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 : 46

Glyptothrips hylaeus ( Hood, 1950)

( Figs 37–40 )

This species seems to lack a highly distinctive trait, and most of its morphological character states are shared with a variety of other Glyptothrips species. The head shape ( Fig. 38 ) seems to be intermediate between the shorter and strongly rounded head (e.g. G. claviger , G. subcalvus ), and the elongate head with straight genae (e.g. G. divergens , G. longiceps ). This species seems to be quite similar to G. saltuarius , with the only clear difference in the type specimens being the head length in relation to head width ( Table 2 ).

Known wing forms: macropterous.

Specimens studied. Holotype ♂; Brazil, São Paulo, Franco da Rocha, Serra da Cantareira , dead leaves on ground in shade of low trees, 11.vi.1948 (J.D. Hood, F. Lane and L. T. Filho), at NMNH.

Figures

FIGURES 37–40. Glyptothrips hylaeus, male holotype. (37) Male. (38) Head, thorax and abdominal segments I–III. (39) Abdominal segments VII–X. (40) Male pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII, a large plate covering most of the sternite.