Glyptothrips longiceps ( Hood, 1954 )

Lindner, Mariana Flores, Ferrari, Augusto, Lima, Élison Fabrício Bezerra & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2023, Morphological identification of Glyptothrips species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 5375 (1), pp. 31-57 : 46-51

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scientific name	Glyptothrips longiceps ( Hood, 1954 )
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Glyptothrips longiceps ( Hood, 1954) View in CoL

( Figs 47–50 View FIGURES 47–50 )

This is one of the species with the longest head in relation to its width, with a ratio of 1.5x or longer in all observed specimens ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 47–50 ). Only G. divergens and G. saltuarius have similarly elongate heads within Glyptothrips . This species can be differentiated from the other two by the appearance of head sculpture, which is transversely elongate ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 47–50 ), and the rather short tube in relation to head (less than 0.7x as long as head, Fig. 47 View FIGURES 47–50 ). Both G. divergens and G. saltuarius have equiangular reticulation on head, and the tube is proportionally longer ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ). It also seems to be the only one of the three long-headed Glyptothrips species where individuals may bear thickened and capitate setae on the forelegs ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 47–50 ).

Known wing forms: macropterous.

Specimens studied. Holotype ♀; Brazil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia , viii.1952 (F. Plaumann), at NMNH. One ♂ and one ♀ (non-types); same location as holotype, under fallen leaves, ix.1952, at NMNH.