Neohydatothrips varius (Moulton)

Lima, Élison Fabrício B. & Mound, Laurence A., 2016, Species-richness in Neotropical Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 4162 (1), pp. 1-45 : 41

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scientific name	Neohydatothrips varius (Moulton)
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Neohydatothrips varius (Moulton) View in CoL

( Figs 44 View FIGURES 41 – 49 , 76 View FIGURES 67 – 79 , 109, 110 View FIGURES 104 – 110 )

Sericothrips varius Moulton, 1941: 317 View in CoL .

Female macroptera. Colour: body strongly bicoloured ( Fig. 109 View FIGURES 104 – 110 ), brown on head, mesonotum, metanotum, tergites II–IV and VII–VIII; tergites V–VI shaded brown medially, with antecostal ridge dark and small brown spot anterolaterally ( Fig. 76 View FIGURES 67 – 79 ); tergite IX posterior half light brown, X yellow, pronotum yellow, blotch almost indistinguishable apart from anterior margin; fore wing with 3 dark and 3 pale bands, apex pale, clavus dark with pale setae; antennal segments I–II pale, III pale with weak shading medially, IV brown with apex pale; hind tibiae yellow with brown marking on external distal margin, femora brown distally.

Structure: Occipital apodeme close to, but not touching posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area with closely spaced striations and markings between the striae ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 41 – 49 ); antennal segments III & IV with a short constricted apical neck; pronotum transversely striate, blotch with striae more closely spaced and transverse row of setae on anterior margin ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 41 – 49 ); mesonotum and metanotum closely striate; metasternal plate with shallow emargination; fore wing second vein with 2 setae distally; tergites VII–VIII with complete comb of microtrichia on posterior margin but short on VII, comb absent medially on remaining tergites; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae; sternites III–VI with microtrichia medially but VII with none medially.

Male. Similar to female, but smaller, with tergite VII pale ( Fig. 110 View FIGURES 104 – 110 ).

Material studied. Holotype female, BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, October 1933 ( CAS) ; Santa Catarina State, Nova Teutônia [Seara], 7 females 1 male, various dates in 1949 (F. Plaumann) ( USNM) .

Comments. Described originally from a single female, further specimens have been studied from Brazil. The colour of N. varius is similar to that of N. maculicollis , but these species can be distinguished by the characters in the key.