Anaphothrips incertus (Girault), 1978

Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, Zootaxa 2042 (1), pp. 1-76 : 41-42

Anaphothrips incertus (Girault)

( Figs 106–108 )

Limothrips incertus Girault, 1929: 3

Anaphothrips incertus (Girault) Pitkin, 1978: 359

In structure, this is a typical grass-living species of Anaphothrips . It has been beaten from many different species of native grasses, but not from introduced pasture grasses. It is known from a wide area across eastern Australia , between Brown Mountain in south eastern New South Wales to Broken Hill in western N.S.W., and northward through various sites in Queensland to Charleville. Pitkin (1978: 359) selected a female from forest grasses at Mt Cootha , Brisbane , 1.i.1929 as Lectotype.

Female macroptera. Body dark brown, legs with tarsi and apices of tibiae yellowish; antennal segments II and V–VIII dark brown, I light brown, III–IV yellow; fore wings mainly pale; major body setae dark. Head about as long as wide, projecting weakly in front of eyes ( Fig. 106 ); eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocellar setae III just anterior to hind ocelli; postocular setae III displaced behind setal row. Antennae 8-segmented ( Fig. 107 ), III–IV with small forked sensorium, II without microtrichia; VI not pedicellate. Pronotum with transverse anastomosing striae; posteromarginal setae slightly longer than discal setae. Metascutum irregularly reticulate, without internal wrinkles; median setae on anterior third of sclerite; MCS present. Fore wing first vein with about 6 setae on basal half, 1 seta medially and 2 distally; second vein with about 12 setae including 1–2 basal to vein fork; clavus with about 5 veinal setae and one seta at base. Abdominal tergites laterally with small dentate microtrichia on sculpture and dentate microtrichia on posterior margin; II–VII with sculpture extending just mesad of setae S2, smooth at middle; VIII with long slender posteromarginal comb. Sternites with small dentate microtrichia along posterior margin.

Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite VIII with long comb; IX with two pairs of short stout setae medially; sternites III–VII each with C-shaped pore plate ( Fig. 108 ).

Figures

FIGURES 106–113. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. incertus 106–108: (106) head & pronotum; (107) antenna; (108) male sternites. A. monga 109–113: (109) head & pronotum; (110) male sternites; (111) antenna; (112) pterothorax and tergites I–II; (113) tergite VIII–IX.