Enigmathrips carnarvoni, Mound & Tree & Wells, 2022

Mound, Laurence A., Tree, Desley J. & Wells, Alice, 2022, Convoluted maxillary stylets among Australian Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae associated mainly with Casuarinaceae trees, Zootaxa 5190 (3), pp. 301-332 : 317

Enigmathrips carnarvoni sp.n.

( Figs 43, 44, 45, 46 )

Female macroptera. Body light brown, anterior margin of head and anterior margins of tergites darker; all setae pale; legs mainly yellow; antennal segment I brown, II–VIII yellow with light shadings; fore wing uniformly shaded with apex and extreme base paler. With the generic character states given above.

Measurements (holotype female in microns). Body length 3010. Head, length 300; width medially 175; po setae 105. Pronotum, length 350; width 300; prothorax width across coxae 550; major setae – am 50, aa 120, ml 115, epim 130, pa 125. Fore wing length 1450; width 120; sub-basal setae 100. Tergite V posterolateral setae 180; setae S1 on tergite IX 130. Tube, basal width 115; length 250. Antennal segments III–VIII length 100, 85, 85, 75, 75, 30.

Female microptera. Very similar to macroptera in size and structure; fore wing lobe less than 200 microns long.

Specimens studied. Holotype female macroptera, Queensland, Carnarvon Station , by barkspray on Acacia harpophylla , 13.x.2014 (DJTree 1956), in ANIC.

Paratypes: one female microptera collected with holotype , one female similarly collected on same date nearby at Piebald Spring Road ; Lake Nuga Nuga [40km East of type locality] , 2 female micropterae by barkspray on Acacia harpophylla , 8.vi.2014 (in QDPC and ANIC) .

Figures

FIGURES 40–50. Akthethrips, Enigmathrips, Phallothrips, Thaumatothrips. A. strobus 40-42: (40) head; (41) pronotum; (42) metanotum & pelta. E. carnarvoni 43–46: (43) antenna; (44) head; (45) prosternites; (46) pronotum. (47) T. froggatti head & fore legs. P. houstoni 48–50: (48) microptera; (49) macroptera; (50) macroptera tergites V–VII.