Enneothrips atlanticus, Vieira & O’Donnell & Lima, 2024

Vieira, Daniel Elizeu, O’Donnell, Cheryle A. & Lima, Élison Fabrício B., 2024, Enneothrips Hood: a Neotropical genus of leaf-feeding thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with generic diagnosis and four new species, Zootaxa 5397 (4), pp. 563-577 : 568

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.4.7
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10469156
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2D3987BD-F143-FFC9-FF3F-1C29C0C6F8AF
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Enneothrips atlanticus
status	sp. nov.

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Enneothrips atlanticus sp. n.

( Figs 3 View FIGURES 1–16 , 18, 28 View FIGURES 17–34 , 38 View FIGURES 35–43 , 48, 57, 58 View FIGURES 44–59 , 63 View FIGURES 60–66 )

Female macroptera. Body bicolored, brown and yellow ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–16 ). Antennal segments brown, except for basal half of segment I and apical half of II, basal fourth and extreme apex of III and extreme bases of IV and V light brown ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 17–34 ). Legs yellow. Head yellow medially and brown laterally, ocellar triangle brown ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 17–34 ). Pronotum with longitudinal yellow bands medially and laterally, brown sub-laterally; mesonotum yellow with anterior and anterolateral areas brown, mesonotum yellow with posterior sub-lateral areas brown ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 35–43 ). Fore wing brown, with pale circular spot at basal fourth ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 44–59 ). Abdominal tergites I and X yellow, II–VIII with median oval brown area, with lateral thirds yellow, IX with median brown area and lateral, anterior and posterior thirds yellow. Ocellar triangle without sculpture, ocellar setae III long and inside the triangle; posterior area of head transversely striate with a few long reticles on extreme posterior area; mouth cone short, not surpassing prosternum. Pronotum transversely striate ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 17–34 ). Mesonotum transversely striate, about 20 lines of sculpture. Metanotum transversely almost fully reticulate, except for anterior fourth with transverse lines of sculpture, internal markings absent ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 35–43 ). Meso- and metafurca with spinula ( Fig. 57 View FIGURES 44–59 ). Abdominal tergites II–VII with around 10 transverse lines of sculpture on lateral thirds ( Figs 58 View FIGURES 44–59 , 63 View FIGURES 60–66 ); II–V with posteromarginal comb of microtrichia incomplete, VI with microtrichia medially and laterally and without microtrichia sublaterally, VII–VIII with complete comb of microtrichia ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 60–66 ).

Measurements— holotype in microns: Body length 1375. Head length 118, width 138; pronotum length 115, width 170; fore wing length 750; antennal segments I–IX length, respectively 20, 36, 46, 50, 38, 40, 12, 10, 12.

Male. Unknown.

Etymology. The species is named after the severely deforested Atlantic Rainforest, the second-largest South American forest, where the holotype was collected.

Material studied. Female holotype: Brazil. Santa Catarina: Nova Teutônia [Seara], on leaves of Phytolacea divia, 10.xi.1949 (F.Plaumann col.) ( USNM) .

Comments. This species is distinctive in the genus by the metafurca with spinula and the coloration of the abdominal tergites with oval brown areas. In addition, ocellar setae III are longer than in any other Enneothrips ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 17–34 ). It shares with E. amazonicus the tergite VII with complete posteromarginal comb of microtrichia ( Figs 62, 63 View FIGURES 60–66 ).