Anaphothrips carlylei Girault, 1928

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 : 23-24

Anaphothrips carlylei Girault

( Figs 39–40 )

Anaphothrips carlylei Girault, 1928: 1 . The male described below was found in isolation, and its identity is therefore not certain. The species has proved to be remarkably elusive, but is possibly associated with the Australian plant genus Dianella .

Female macroptera. Body and legs brown, tarsi and apices of tibiae paler; antennal segments I–II and IV–IX brown, III yellow; fore wings shaded. Head as long as wide; eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocellar setae III at margin of triangle, anterior to hind ocelli. Antennae 9-segmented, III–IV weakly constricted at apex, IV with sensorium forked, III with sensorium apparently simple, inner branch short and parallel to segment apex; II without microtrichia, VI not pedicellate, IX longer than VIII ( Fig. 39 ). Pronotum with anastomosing striae. Metascutum reticulate, median setae far behind anterior margin; MCS present. Fore wing first vein with about 7 setae basally, 2 setae medially, 2 or 3 setae distally; second vein with 11 to 14 setae, including one seta basal to vein fork; clavus with 4–5 veinal setae plus one seta at base. Abdominal tergites median setae small, wide apart; small dentate microtrichia on sculpture lines lateral to S2 setae; VIII with no marginal comb.

Male microptera. Colour similar to female; fore wing lobe as long as pronotum; abdominal tergites with sculpture weak; tergite IX with 2 pairs of stout setae medially; sternites III–VII with very large C-shaped glandular area ( Fig. 40 ).

Specimens examined. Syntypes 2 females, Queensland, Norman Park, from Dianella coerulea (Liliaceae) , 6.x.1927 (QM).

Queensland, Brisbane, Mt Glorious , 1 female from Dianella coerulea , 29.x.1992 . Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Black Mtn , 4 females from grasses and Dianella , 4.xii.1960 . South Australia, Adelaide Hills, Scotts Creek , 1 male from Dianella , 1.x.2007 .

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.