Goetheana incerta Annecke, 1962

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Goetheana incerta Annecke, 1962

Goetheana incerta Annecke, 1962: 277 , 278. (Type locality: Skukuza , Kruger National Park, South Africa) Goetheana incerta Annecke : Loomans & van Lenteren 1995: 137–141, 197.

Diagnosis: Female very similar to that of G. shakespearei ; male antenna, illustrated by Annecke (1962), with scape slender (about 4 x as long as wide, not swollen), similar to female’s. Therefore slide-mounting is almost always necessary for a successful determination of specimen’s sex in G. incerta , unlike in all other known species of Goetheana , males of which can be easily distinguished from females by a swollen antennal scape in live, alcohol-preserved, or dry-mounted specimens.

Type material: Holotype female, 4 paratype females, allotype and 1 paratype male ( Annecke 1962) in the South African National Collection of Insects , Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, not examined.

Material examined: SOUTH AFRICA: KwaZulu-Natal: 1^ 1ơ, Pietermaritzburg, Hilton, 29°32'30.7''S: 30°18'18.4''E, 1131 m, 27.i–16.ii.2004, M. Mostovski [NMSA, UCRC]. Mpumalanga: Nelspruit, 30.iv.1998, P.R. Sounders, 19^ 7ơ and 6 specimens of an undetermined sex (ex. Scirtothrips aurantii on Caesalpinia pulcherima ) [UCRC].

Distribution: South Africa.

Hosts: Scirtothrips aurantii Faure ( Grout & Stephen 1995) .