Glyptothrips interior ( Stannard, 1955 )

Lindner, Mariana Flores, Ferrari, Augusto, Lima, Élison Fabrício Bezerra & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2023, Morphological identification of Glyptothrips species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 5375 (1), pp. 31-57 : 46

Glyptothrips interior ( Stannard, 1955)

( Figs 41–46 )

This mostly yellow species is described as one of the lightest Glyptothrips species, being brown only on tips of antennae and tube, wing pads and median spots on abdominal tergites ( Fig. 41 ). It also has the postocellar and occipital setae thickened and capitate ( Fig. 42 ), a trait only seen elsewhere in G. claviger and G. floridensis , two mostly dark brown species. Glyptothrips interior is also one of few species in the genus with a reduced number of sense cones on antennal segment IV ( Table 2 ), being differentiated from the others by its light colouration and capitate occipital and pterothoracic ventrolateral setae.

Known wing forms: micropterous.

Specimens studied. Paratype ♂; USA, Illinois, Monticello, Allerton Estate , woodland debris, 14.iv.1942 (M. O. Farrar), at INHS .

Figures

FIGURES 41–46. Glyptothrips interior, male paratype. (41) Male. (42) Head and prothorax; fore tarsal tooth indicated by arrow heads. OC—occipital setae, PO—postocular setae, POC—postocellar setae. (43) Antenna. (44) Pterothorax and abdominal segments I–III. (45) Abdominal segments VIII–X, with tergite IX setae indicated. (46) Male pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII, a narrow transverse band subbasally (arrow head).