Neohydatothrips basilaris (Hood)

(Figs 15, 45, 67, 84)

Sericothrips basilaris Hood, 1941: 139 .

Female macroptera. Colour: body dark brown (Fig. 84), tergite X pale; fore wing uniformly dark with white subbasal area; antennal segments I–III (or IV) largely pale; hind femora and tibiae brownish yellow.

Structure: occipital apodeme confluent with posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area transversely striate (Fig. 15); antennal segments III & IV with constricted apical neck; pronotum with anterior area reticulate, blotch welldefined (Fig. 15); mesonotum and anterior part of metanotum closely striate (Fig. 45); metasternal plate with shallow emargination; fore wing second vein with 2 setae (Fig. 67); tergites II–VIII with comb of microtrichia complete on posterior margin but short on anterior tergites: tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae.

Material studied. Holotype female, CUBA, San Vincente, 8–9 vii.1940 (USNM) . BRAZIL, Santa Catarina State, Nova Teutônia [Seara], 14 females, 3 males, 1.i.1949 (F. Plaumann) (USNM) .

Comments. This is a large dark brown species with much red internal pigment. Described from Cuba, but recorded from Panama and Costa Rica (Mound & Marullo 1996) and here from Brazil (Santa Catarina), the thoracic sculpture is almost unique in the genus (Fig. 15). As in N. fimbriatus, tergites II–VIII have a fringe of microtrichia medially on the posterior margin, although this fringe is short on the anterior tergites. Antennal segments III and IV both have a long slender apical neck.