Neohydatothrips daedalus (Hood)

Lima, Élison Fabrício B. & Mound, Laurence A., 2016, Species-richness in Neotropical Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 4162 (1), pp. 1-45 : 15-19

Neohydatothrips daedalus (Hood)

( Fig. 88 )

Sericothrips daedalus Hood, 1954: 201 .

Female macroptera. Colour: body strongly bicoloured ( Fig. 88 ), brown on head, mesonotum, metanotum, tergites II–IV laterally, tergites VII–IX; fore wing with 3 dark and 3 pale bands, apex pale, clavus dark with pale setae; antennal segments I–II light brown, III and base of IV pale; hind tibiae yellow with light shading medially.

Structure: Occipital apodeme close to but not confluent with posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area irregularly reticulate; antennal segments III & IV constricted to short apical neck; pronotum transversely reticulate without internal markings, blotch well-defined and transversely striate; mesonotum and anterior part of metanotum striate; metasternal plate with shallow emargination; fore wing second vein with 1 or 2 setae; tergites VII–VIII with complete comb of long microtrichia on posterior margin, VI with comb shorter than diameter of campaniform sensilla, no comb on remaining tergites; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae.

Male macroptera. Similar to female, but smaller and with tergite VII pale.

Material studied. Holotype female and paratype male, BRAZIL, Santa Catarina State, Nova Teutônia [Seara], on Luehea , 25.v.1949 ( USNM) .

Comments. This species remains known only from the type series of 3 females and 3 males collected from Luehea [ Tiliaceae ] in February, 1949 at Nova Teutônia. It is closely related to N. fasciatus , but is more boldly coloured and has the pronotal sculpture reticulate instead of transversely reticulate to striate.

Figures

FIGURES 80 – 91. Hydatothrips and Neohydatothrips species. (80) H. sternalis (female), (81) H. sternalis (male), (82) H. tricinctus (female), (83) H. tricinctus (male), (84) N. basilaris (female), (85) N. burungae (female), (86) N. burungae (male), (87) N. chelinus (female), (88) N. daedalus (female), (89) N. fasciatus (female), (90) N. fasciatus (male), (91) N. fimbriatus (female).