Anaphothrips barrowi, 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 : 21-23

Anaphothrips barrowi sp. n.

( Figs 32–35 )

Female macroptera. Body, legs and antennal segments I–III yellow, IV–VI faintly shaded at apex, VII–IX palest brown; fore wings pale; tergite IX major setae pale. Head wider than long, with closely spaced sculpture lines behind eyes ( Fig. 32 ); eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocellar setae III outside ocellar triangle. Antennae 9-segmented; III–IV with sensorium forked, II without microtrichia; VI not pedicellate, suture between VI–VII oblique ( Fig. 35 ). Pronotum almost without sculpture, or with faint well-spaced, transverse lines; discal setae small. Metascutal sculpture irregularly reticulate with some elongate reticles; median setae fine and well back from anterior margin; MCS absent. Fore wing first vein with about 9 setae basally, 2 setae medially and 2 setae near apex; second vein with 9–11 setae; clavus with 5 veinal setae plus one seta at base. Abdominal tergites II–VII with no sculpture medially, lateral to setae S2 with about 7 lines bearing short microtrichia ( Fig. 33 ); VIII with long regular marginal comb.

Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1020. Head, length 75; width across eyes 135. Pronotum, length 85; maximum width 160. Fore wing, length 570; median width 45; first vein longest seta in basal row 15. Tergite IV S1 setae 7. Tergite IX, MD setae 7; PM S1 setae 65. Tergite X PM S1 setae 50. Antennal segments III–IX, 30, 25, 30, 30, 7, 7, 10.

Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite IX with two pairs of setae scarcely thickened ( Fig. 34 ); sternite III with very slender, transverse pore plate close to anterior margin.

Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, Western Australia, Barrow Island , beaten, v.2005 (S. Callan).

Paratypes: 10 females 3 males taken with holotype; 3 females same locality, iv–v.2005. Non-paratypic specimens: Western Australia, Cue, 6 females from Eremophila leaves ( Myoporaceae ), 20.iv.1997.

Comments. The females of this species are particularly similar to those of A. barringtoni , but the males have a transverse pore plate on sternite III that is exceptionally slender.

Figures

FIGURES 32–43. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. barrowi 32–35: (32) head; (33) tergites V–VII; (34) male tergite IX; (35) antenna. A. callani 36–38: (36) antenna; (37) tergites V–VII; (38) male sternites II–V. A. carlylei 39–40: (39) antenna; (40) male sternites. A. cecili 41–43: (41) male sternites; (42) meso & metanotum; (43) antenna.