Neohydatothrips varius (Moulton)

(Figs 44, 76, 109, 110)

Sericothrips varius Moulton, 1941: 317 .

Female macroptera. Colour: body strongly bicoloured (Fig. 109), brown on head, mesonotum, metanotum, tergites II–IV and VII–VIII; tergites V–VI shaded brown medially, with antecostal ridge dark and small brown spot anterolaterally (Fig. 76); tergite IX posterior half light brown, X yellow, pronotum yellow, blotch almost indistinguishable apart from anterior margin; fore wing with 3 dark and 3 pale bands, apex pale, clavus dark with pale setae; antennal segments I–II pale, III pale with weak shading medially, IV brown with apex pale; hind tibiae yellow with brown marking on external distal margin, femora brown distally.

Structure: Occipital apodeme close to, but not touching posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area with closely spaced striations and markings between the striae (Fig. 44); antennal segments III & IV with a short constricted apical neck; pronotum transversely striate, blotch with striae more closely spaced and transverse row of setae on anterior margin (Fig. 44); mesonotum and metanotum closely striate; metasternal plate with shallow emargination; fore wing second vein with 2 setae distally; tergites VII–VIII with complete comb of microtrichia on posterior margin but short on VII, comb absent medially on remaining tergites; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae; sternites III–VI with microtrichia medially but VII with none medially.

Male. Similar to female, but smaller, with tergite VII pale (Fig. 110).

Material studied. Holotype female, BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, October 1933 (CAS) ; Santa Catarina State, Nova Teutônia [Seara], 7 females 1 male, various dates in 1949 (F. Plaumann) (USNM) .

Comments. Described originally from a single female, further specimens have been studied from Brazil. The colour of N. varius is similar to that of N. maculicollis, but these species can be distinguished by the characters in the key.