Neohydatothrips gracilipes (Hood)

Lima, Élison Fabrício B. & Mound, Laurence A., 2016, Species-richness in Neotropical Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 4162 (1), pp. 1-45 : 25

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5686840

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scientific name

Neohydatothrips gracilipes (Hood)
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Neohydatothrips gracilipes (Hood) View in CoL

( Figs 26 View FIGURES 24 – 31 , 56 View FIGURES 50 – 66 , 94 View FIGURES 92 – 103 )

Sericothrips gracilipes Hood, 1924: 149 View in CoL .

Female macroptera. Colour: body yellow with light brown markings ( Fig. 94 View FIGURES 92 – 103 ), ocellar region faintly shaded; pronotal blotch light brown, with margins poorly defined; anterior margin of mesonotum, and lateral margins of metanotum light brown; tergites II–VII with antecostal ridge dark and brown markings anterolaterally, VIII–X yellow; fore wing pale with faintly shaded area in basal third, clavus shaded; antennal segments I–II pale, III pale medially but shaded at base and apex, base of IV pale; hind tibiae yellow, femora lightly shaded.

Structure: Occipital apodeme not confluent with posterior margin of eyes; ocellar area irregularly reticulate ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 24 – 31 ); mouth cone long, extending between fore coxae; antennal segments III & IV with apex weakly constricted into neck; pronotum transversely striate, blotch with transverse row of setae on anterior margin ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 24 – 31 ); mesonotum and anterior part of metanotum striate; metasternal plate moderately emarginate ( Fig. 56 View FIGURES 50 – 66 ); fore wing second vein with no setae; tergites VII–VIII with complete comb of long microtrichia on posterior margin, no comb medially on remaining tergites; tergite IX with two pairs of mid-dorsal setae; sternites III–VI with discal microtrichia medially, but not VII.

Larva II. Pale, with few microtrichia on dorsal surface. Antennae 7-segmented, segment I yellow, II–VII yellowish brown. Thorax without brown sclerotized areas. Body with several long brown setae with fringed but not expanded apices, up to about 32 microns long on thorax and abdominal tergites I–IV, arising from normal setae insertions; sternal setae acute.

Material studied. Holotype female, MEXICO. Laguna District, 25.x.1917 ( USNM) . Several females from INDIA, THAILAND, NEW CALEDONIA and NORTHERN AUSTRALIA ( ANIC) .

Comments. Described originally from Mexico in association with extensive damage to a crop of cotton, and subsequently recorded from various places around the Caribbean ( Mound & Marullo, 1996), this species is probably widespread on its major host plants, various weedy species of Sida . It has been recorded on these plants both from central India ( Bhatti et al., 1999), from across northern Australia ( Mound 2002), and Galapagos Is. ( Ecuador) ( Hoddle & Mound 2011). It is closely related to N. burungae and N. signifer , but has the mouth cone unusually long and is further distinguished by the characters indicated in the key above. It is not yet recorded from Brazil, but is likely to be present.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Thripidae

Genus

Neohydatothrips

Loc

Neohydatothrips gracilipes (Hood)

Lima, Élison Fabrício B. & Mound, Laurence A. 2016
2016
Loc

Sericothrips gracilipes

Hood 1924: 149
1924
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