Acallurothrips erubi, Mound & Tree, 2021

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2021, Tubuliferous Thysanoptera inAustralia with an enlarged tenth abdominal segment (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), including six new species, Zootaxa 4951 (1), pp. 167-181 : 170-171

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.9
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C69BBA9F-961B-4369-8FB1-1EBCC1EB130A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4655909
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03892716-FF9B-6D1A-86CF-F921AAFF92CE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Acallurothrips erubi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Acallurothrips erubi View in CoL sp.n.

( Figs 4 View FIGURES 1‒13 , 15 View FIGURES 14‒22 , 25 View FIGURES 23‒33 , 35 View FIGURES 34‒39 )

Female macroptera. Body brown with distal abdominal segments darker and tube black; legs brown with mid and hind femora variably yellow distally and ventrally; antennal segments I–III mainly yellow with III shaded in apical half, IV–VIII increasingly brown; fore wings strongly shaded with darker longitudinal line. Head wider than long, postocular setae pointed and longer than eye length; maxillary stylets retracted to level of eyes, widely spaced ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 14‒22 ). Antennal segment III with 2 sense cones, IV with 4, all sense cones curved, the ventral pair on IV being strongly curved; suture between segments VII and VIII present ventrally but not dorsally ( Fig 25 View FIGURES 23‒33 ). Pronotum smooth, with 5 pairs of major setae, am setae smallest, epim setae long; notopleural sutures complete. Prosternal basantra weakly sclerotised but usually bearing one seta, ferna transverse, mesopresternum reduced to irregular median sclerite; metathoracic sternopleural sutures broadly eroded. Metanotum very weakly reticulate. Fore wing without duplicated cilia, one sub-basal seta elongate. Pelta reticulate, transverse, close to anterior margin of tergite II but variably eroded postero-medially ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 34‒39 ); tergites II‒VII with no wing-retaining setae defined, setal pair S3 very long and fine, much longer than posteroangular pair S4; tergite VIII setal pair S1 long and fine, S3 short and slightly stout; tergite IX setae S1 and S2 long and fine and slightly longer than tube, S3 shorter; intermediate setae SB1 short and fine, SB2 half as long as S1. Tube bee-hive shaped, sharply constricted to anal ring ( Fig 4 View FIGURES 1‒13 ).

Measurements (holotype female in microns). Body length 1800. Head, length 155; width 200; postocular setae 90. Pronotum, length 115; width 285; major setae—am 20, aa 25, ml 35, epim 85, pa 65. Fore wing, length 750; longest sub-basal seta 95. Tergite V setae S3 110. Tergite IX setae—S1 200, SB1 35, SB2 15, S2 220, S3 175. Tube, length 220; maximum width 160; width at anal ring 30. Antennal segments III–VII length 55, 50, 50, 45, 70.

Male aptera. Very similar to female in colour and structure, meso and metanota more transverse; head without ocelli; metanotal reticulation weak; tergal setae S1, S2 and S3 long and fine; tergite IX lacking setal pair SB2.

Specimens studied. Holotype female, Australia, Queensland, Darnley Island [S9.5797, E143.7790], from dead twigs, 17.xi.2009 ( LAM5293 ), in ANIC. GoogleMaps

Paratypes: 4 females taken with holotype; Cairns, James Cook University [S16.814 E 145.685], 2 females, 1 male from dead branches, 3.xi.2008.

Comments. This species is closely similar to nogutii Kurosawa but has the tube distinctly more robust ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1‒13 ). Erub is an original name for Darnley Island.