Ozanaphothrips thulius, Mound & Masumoto, 2009

Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, Zootaxa 2042 (1), pp. 1-76 : 69

Ozanaphothrips thulius sp. n.

(Figs 205–207)

Female macroptera. Body and legs brown, all tarsi and apices of tibiae yellow; antennal segment I brown, II dark brown, III–V yellow with base and apex weakly shaded (Fig. 205), VI–VIII light brown; fore wings weakly shaded. Head with anterior part of vertex slightly swollen, fore ocellus reduced; ocellar setae pairs I and II close together, pair III between posterior ocelli; eyes large, cheeks straight. Antennal segment IV with sensorium forked, IV–V with very few microtrichia. Pronotum trapezoidal, weakly sculptured around margins, setae small but posteromarginal pair S8 at least twice as long as pair I. Mesonotum weakly reticulate, median pair of setae distant from posterior margin. Metascutum with irregular longitudinal reticulation (Fig. 207), median setae arise at anterior margin, no MCS. Mesothoracic sternopleural sutures apparently complete at anterior margin; furca with weak spinula. Fore wing first vein with 7 basal and 2 distal setae, second vein with 5 setae; clavus with 5 veinal setae. Abdominal tergite I reticulate, with no craspedum; tergites II–VIII with little sculpture medially, broad posteromarginal craspedum entire or slightly dentate; campaniform sensilla twice their diameter from posterior margin; tergite IX MD setae moderately long, marginal setae long and slender. Sternites without craspeda, marginal setae arise at margin, 4 to 10 discal setae in irregular transverse row medially (Fig. 206).

Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1480. Head, length 105; width across eyes 120. Pronotum, length 150; maximum width 175. Fore wing, length 740; first vein longest seta in basal row 15. Tergite IV S1 setae 10. Tergite IX, MD setae 25; PM S1 setae 90. Tergite X PM S1 setae 60. Antennal segments III–VIII, 35, 30, 27, 45, 10, 15.

Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera. Northern Territory, Darwin, Holmes Jungle , from grasses, 20.xii.1995 ( LAM 3071 ).

Paratypes: 3 females taken with holotype.

Comments. Although very similar to A. perotis and A. fenarius in many character states, including the form of the head and pronotum, the metascutal sculpture and the position of the sternal marginal setae are very different.