Anaphothrips newmani Moulton, 1935

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 : 44-45

Anaphothrips newmani Moulton

Anaphothrips newmani Moulton , in Moulton & Newman, 1935: 99

This species is known only from the original specimens, and the holotype is mounted under one cover slip with four other females, one male and two larvae (contrary to the statement in Pitkin, 1978). None of the specimens is in a suitable condition for critical study. The antennal segments are shrunken, but the suture between VI – VII is apparently oblique. On the head, ocellar setae pair III are just anterolateral to the triangle. The metascutum is reticulate medially but campaniform sensilla are not visible on any of the specimens. The fore wing has at least one seta on the second vein basal to the vein fork. Laterally on the tergites there are 9–10 lines of sculpture bearing many fine microtrichia, but these lines do not extend mesad of the S2 setae. The tergites of one of the females have pale brown shading medially, although the other females appear to be entirely yellow. The male has two pairs of stout setae medially on tergite IX, and the pore plates appear to be very weakly curved rather than transverse. The most closely related species are probably A. atriplicis and A .

cobari, but neither of these have such closely spaced microtrichiate sculpture lines on the tergites, and the males of both have different pore plates.

Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, 4 paratype females, one paratype male with 2 larvae, Western Australia, Claremont, on Acacia , 15.iii.1932 (in California Academy of Sciences ).