Holopothrips carolinae Mound & Marullo

Lindner, Mariana F., Ferrari, Augusto, Mound, Laurence A. & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2018, Holopothrips diversity-a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing insects (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 4494 (1), pp. 1-99 : 30

Holopothrips carolinae Mound & Marullo

( Figs 51–52 )

Holopothrips carolinae Mound & Marullo, 1996: 295 .

Diagnostic features. Body mostly yellow, with head brown with posterior margin yellow and abdominal segment X brown; one pair of long setae on epimeral region; metanotal sculpture reticulate; fore wings without duplicated cilia; pelta sculpture reticulate, weaker or absent posteriorly; female spermatheca not enlarged.

Comments. This bicoloured species is known only from the female holotype collected in Costa Rica from Pentaclethra (Fabaceae) . It is unique in the absence of duplicated cilia in fore wings, and in having only segment X of the abdomen brown in colour ( Fig. 51 ), whereas all other bicoloured species of Holopothrips have at least abdominal segments IX and X brown. Antennal segments III & IV bear only two sense cones each.

Material studied. Female holotype, Costa Rica, La Selva, in Pentaclethra canopy fogging, 5.x.1992, code LAM 2410 ( BMNH).

Figures

FIGURES 51–60. Holopothrips carolinae, H. chaconi and H. claritibialis. 51–52. Holopothrips carolinae, female holotype: (51) body; (52) head and pronotum; 53–54. Holopothrips chaconi, paratypes: (53) male paratype, head and pronotum; (54) female paratype, body; 55–60. Holopothrips claritibialis: (55) body; (56) head and pronotum; (57) mesonotum, metanotum and pelta; (58) prosternum, showing chitinous islets (white arrows); (59) pore plates on abdominal sternites VII–VIII; (60) abdominal tergites III–IV, showing the third and a fourth wing-retaining seta (white arrows).