Neohydatothrips pseudoannulipes Johansen

Lima, Élison Fabrício B. & Mound, Laurence A., 2016, Species-richness in Neotropical Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 4162 (1), pp. 1-45 : 36

Neohydatothrips pseudoannulipes Johansen

Neohydatothrips pseudoannulipes Johansen, 1983: 108 .

Female macroptera. Colour: body bicoloured, head, mesonotum, metanotum and abdominal tergites II–IV and VII–IX brown; pronotum and abdominal tergites I, V–VI and X yellow, antennal segments I–III pale, IV yellow with apical third brown, V brown with basal third yellow, light brown with base and apical fourth brown, V light brown with base and apical third brown, VI–VIII brown; legs yellow except for median shaded brown area on mid and hind femora also fore and mid tibiae; fore wing with three brown (including base and apex) and two pale bands.

Structure: Occipital apodeme not confluent with posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area apparently weakly striated; pronotum transversely reticulate with no internal markings and some broader reticles medially, pronotal blotch distinct; mesonotum transversely striate; metanotal striae transverse on anterior half, longitudinal on posterior half; metasternal plate with shallow emargination; fore wing with two setae on second vein, comb of microtrichia incomplete on tergites III–VI, complete on VII–VIII; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae.

Material studied. None.

Comments. This species was described from several specimens collected in a montane area in Hidalgo, Mexico, although at least one of them is not conspecific ( Nakahara 1999) (see N. samayunkur comments section). Although compared to N. annulipes in the original description, it seems to be more related to N. chelinus and N. daedalus , although the pattern of colouration is different and the pronotal reticles of these Brazilian species are broader.