Craspedothrips antennatus (Bagnall)

Mound, L. A., Masumoto, M. & Okajima, S., 2012, The Palaeotropical genus Craspedothrips, with new species from Africa and Malaysia (Thysanoptera, Thripinae), Zootaxa 3478, pp. 49-61 : 53

Craspedothrips antennatus (Bagnall)

( Figs 5–7 )

Physothrips antennatus Bagnall, 1914: 23

The female labelled as “Type” is in very poor condition due to deterioration of the blackened mountant, but two female syntypes on a second slide are in suitable condition for study (in BMNH). These females were collected in Uganda in association with a rust fungus on the leaves of coffee plants ( Mound 1968). Females, but no males, have also been studied from the leaves of coffee plants from Kenya, Tanzania and Angola (in BMNH). The thrips appears to be associated with Hemileia vastatrix on the leaves of this crop, and a similar association is reported for xanthocerus . Clear illustrations of the head and thoracic tergites were given by Bhatti (1995), and the antenna is similar in structure and proportions to that of antennalis ( Figs 2, 5 ). The head chaetotaxy is particularly unusual, ocellar setae pair I arise far forward on the head and are particularly minute. Ocellar setae pair III arise between the anterior margins of the posterior pair of ocelli, but pair II arise on the anterior margins of the triangle not close to the compound eyes.

Figures

FIGURES 1–7. Craspedothrips species. C. antennalis 1–4: (1) antennal segments V–VIII; (2) antennal segments I–IV; (3) pro-, meso- and meta-nota; (4) sternites V–VII. C. antennatus 5–7: (5) antennal segments III–V; (6) pro, meso & metanota, and tergites I–II; (7) tergites VI–IX.