Craspedothrips antennalis (Karny)

Mound, L. A., Masumoto, M. & Okajima, S., 2012, The Palaeotropical genus Craspedothrips, with new species from Africa and Malaysia (Thysanoptera, Thripinae), Zootaxa 3478, pp. 49-61 : 52

Craspedothrips antennalis (Karny)

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Physothrips antennalis Karny, 1915: 32

This species was described from two females collected in Java from a leaf roll gall on an unidentified Apocynaceae . One of these females (in SMF), designated Lectotype by Bhatti (1978: 165), has been studied. It is slide mounted with the abdomen rather crushed and dissociated from the laterally orientated head and thorax. The base of the only preserved fore wing is not visible. This lectotype has been compared with the females listed below from northern Australia, also with two from Bali. The females from Bali have on tergite IX two pairs of campaniform sensilla, whereas the lectotype and the females from Australia have only the posterior pair on this tergite. The sensoria on antennal segment III are slightly longer than this segment in the lectotype and also the females from Bali, but they are shorter and fatter, and slightly shorter than the segment in the specimens from Australia. In view of the widespread distributions of some other thrips species from northern Australia across Southeast Asia thrips ( Mound & Tree 2011), it seems best to consider all these specimens as conspecific. The Australian specimens, also from Apocynaceae , have long teeth on the pleurotergites similar to those of the lectotype, but the hind tibiae vary within the series from almost clear yellow to light brown in the basal half. The females from Bali are smaller and paler with yellow tibiae.

Specimens studied. INDONESIA: JAVA, Moeriah mountains, Lectotype female from marginal leaf rolls on unidentified Apocynaceae , 28.ix.1912, in SMF; BALI, Tabanan, Pura Luhur, 2 females without host data, 11.viii.2006 (S. Okajima), in LETUA. AUSTRALIA, Queensland, Cairns, Crystal Creek, 7 females from Parsonsia ichnocarpus (Apocynaceae) , 5.xi.2008, in ANIC.

Figures

FIGURES 1–7. Craspedothrips species. C. antennalis 1–4: (1) antennal segments V–VIII; (2) antennal segments I–IV; (3) pro-, meso- and meta-nota; (4) sternites V–VII. C. antennatus 5–7: (5) antennal segments III–V; (6) pro, meso & metanota, and tergites I–II; (7) tergites VI–IX.