Ambaeolothrips microstriatus (Hood) Hood, 2016

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 : 419

Ambaeolothrips microstriatus (Hood) comb. n.

( Figs 6 , 15, 16 , 22 )

Aeolothrips microstriatus Hood, 1935: 103

Without seeing the specimen, and with no explanatory comment, Bhatti (1999) listed this species in the genus Streothrips . It remains known from a single male in the United States National Museum of Natural History, Beltsville, Maryland ( Fig. 15 ). This was collected from unidentified Asteraceae flowers in Panama in March, 1934, and is strongly bicoloured, in contrast to the uniformly brown males of romanruizi . Unfortunately, the terminal abdominal segments are slightly telescoped into each other, and the chaetotaxy of tergite IX is thus difficult to observe and illustrate, although it appears to be similar to that of romanruizi ( Fig. 19 ). The fore wing colour pattern resembles that of the new species described below from southern Brazil.

Figures

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.

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.)