Holopothrips omercooperi (Bagnall)

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Phrasterothrips omercooperi Bagnall, 1924: 633 .

Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown with fore tibiae yellow; maxillary stylets probably wide apart and low on head; one pair of long setae on epimeral region; mesonotal sculpture without internal markings; metanotal sculpture striate; males with three pore plates on sternite VIII only; female spermatheca not enlarged.

Comments. Described from Brazil, this species is very similar to H. affinis, with a few differences in body size and occurrence of male pore plates (only on sternite VIII in H. omercooperi, but on sternites VI–VIII in H. affinis). It has also some similarities with H. kaminskii, but the new species has a unique bell-shaped pelta and males lack any pore plates.

Material studied. 1 female paratype and 1 male “ type ”; Brazil (Omer-Cooper, J.), at BMNH. Slides with code “No. 79, Bagnall Coll.”.