Ambaeolothrips

Mound, Laurence, Cavalleri, Adriano, O’Donnell, Cheryle, Infante, Francisco, Ortiz, Antonio & Goldarazena, Arturo, 2016, Ambaeolothrips: a new genus of Neotropical Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera), with observations on the type-species from mango trees in Mexico, Zootaxa 4132 (3), pp. 413-421 : 416

Key to species of Ambaeolothrips

1. Fore wing with two distinct transverse dark bands, apex of clavus pale ( Fig. 17 ); metanotum without a pair of campaniform sensilla ( Fig. 21 ).............................................................................. romanruizi

-. Fore wing with only one transverse dark band, clavus uniformly dark ( Figs 16, 18 ); metanotum with paired campaniform sensilla medially ( Figs 22, 23 )............................................................................. 2

2. Fore wing with dark bands along anterior and posterior margins toward wing apex, deeply shaded between costa and first vein ( Fig. 18 ), posterior margin dark opposite apex of clavus; female with antennal segment II dark, also abdominal segments uniformly dark brown ( Fig. 20 )................................................................ pampeanus sp. n.

-. Fore wing without long dark bands, not deeply shaded between first vein and costa ( Fig. 16 ), posterior margin pale opposite apex of clavus; male with antennal segment II pale ( Fig. 6 ), also abdominal segments III–VIII pale in contrast to dark segments I–II and IX–X ( Fig. 15 )....................................................................... microstriatus

Figures

FIGURES 15 – 20. Ambaeolothrips. (15) microstriatus male. Fore wings 16 – 18: (16) microstriatus, (17) romanruizi, (18) pampeanus. (19) romanruizi male tergite IX. (20) pampeanus female.

FIGURES 21 – 24. Ambaeolothrips. Meso and metanotum 21 – 23: (21) romanruizi; (22) microstriatus; (23) pampeanus. (24) romanruizi female sternite VII (left side), marginal setae 1 – 4; paired accessory setae (acc. s.)

FIGURES 1 – 14. Aeolothripidae species. Terminal antennal segments 1 – 8: (1) Aeolothrips nitidus; (2) Ae. fasciatus; (3) Ae. bicolor; (4) Ae. nasturtii; (5) Desmothrips australis; (6) Ambaeolothrips microstriatus segments I – IX; (7) Am. pampeanus segments III – IX; (8) Am. romanruizi segments IV – IX. Meso and metanota 9 – 14: (9) Stomatothrips septenarius; (10) Aduncothrips? asiaticus; (11) Erythrothrips arizonae; (12) Lamprothrips miltoni; (13) Gelothrips cinctus; (14) Aeolothrips nitidus.