Holopothrips tenuis Hood

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 : 89

Holopothrips tenuis Hood

( Figs 266–269 )

Holopothrips tenuis Hood, 1914: 52 .

Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown; head clearly longer than wide, with maxillary stylets parallel; pronotal aa setae reduced and ml closer to anterior margin, one pair of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture striate anteriorly and reticulate posteriorly, bearing internal markings; pelta with thin elongate reticles medially; males with pore plates on sternites VII–VIII; female spermatheca very thin, not enlarged medially.

Comments. Described from Hura crepitans galls in Panama, together with H. signatus , the type species of the genus. Holopothrips tenuis is a medium to large-bodied species, with head longer than wide (but not as long as H. orites or H. permagnus ), large eyes. Males have pore plates on sternites VII–VIII, in the usual pattern of two anteroangular plates and one posterior transverse band.

Material studied. 1 male 2 female paratypes; Panama, Taboga Island , under surface of Hura crepitans leaves, 18.x.1913 (Zetek, J.), at BMNH and NMNH.

Figures

FIGURES 262–269. Holopothrips tabebuia and H. tenuis. 262–265. Holopothrips tabebuia: (262) head and pronotum; (263) mesonotum, metanotum and pelta; (264) pore plates on abdominal sternites VII–VIII; (265) spermatheca; 266–269. Holopothrips tenuis paratype: (266) body; (267) head and pronotum; (268) spermatheca; (269) mesonotum, metanotum and pelta.