Holopothrips pennatus Moulton

Lindner, Mariana F., Ferrari, Augusto, Mound, Laurence A. & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2018, Holopothrips diversity-a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing insects (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 4494 (1), pp. 1-99 : 74

Holopothrips pennatus Moulton

( Fig. 211 )

Holopothrips pennatus Moulton, 1938: 379 .

Holopothrips arachnionis Hood, 1955: 139 .

Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown, with all legs fully yellow, clavus and basal area of fore wings shaded brown; maxillary stylets probably parallel; one pair of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture formed by equiangular reticulation without internal markings; female spermatheca enlarged medially.

Comments. This species, described from Southeastern Brazil from an unidentified Apocynaceae , is unique for its combination of uniformly brown body and legs clear yellow ( Fig. 211 ), while the other brown Holopothrips species have at least the femora brown. It shares with H. ananasi , H. claritibialis , H. hambletoni , H. punctatus sp. n., H. tillandsiae and a few bicoloured species the metanotal sculpture formed by equiangular reticles, but is easily distinguished from all of them by the unusual leg colouration.

Material studied. 1 female paratype; Brazil, Minas Gerais, on woody Apocynaceae , 1.v.1933 (Hambleton, E.J.), at BMNH. Slide with code “No. 5227”.

Figures

FIGURES 204–211. Holopothrips omercooperi, H. orites, H. paulus and H. pennatus. 204–208. Holopothrips orites paratypes: (204) body; (205) head; (206) spermatheca; (207) pronotum and mesonotum; (208) metanotum and pelta; (209) Holopothrips omercooperi paratype, body; (210) Holopothrips paulus paratype, body; (211) Holopothrips pennatus paratype, body.