Teuchothrips burroughsi (Girault)

Mound, Laurence A., 2008, Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre- 1930, Zootaxa 1714, pp. 41-60 : 49

Teuchothrips burroughsi (Girault)

Dichaetothrips burroughsi Girault, 1929a: 29

Teuchothrips burroughsi (Girault) ; Mound & Houston, 1987: 17

Described from an unspecified number of specimens taken in “leaf galls” at Boonah in South East Queensland, this species has not been collected since. Judging from the syntypes, the species is distinctive with two pairs of long postocular setae and the head constricted behind the eyes ( Fig. 16 ). The maxillary stylets are unusually low in the head and wide apart, the fore tibia bears a small apical tubercle in both sexes, and tergite IX setae S1 are finely pointed and 0.7 as long as the tube. The forewing sub-basal setae arise in a straight line, and there are more than 20 duplicated cilia. Antennal segment III bears one sensorium, and IV bears three sensoria. The head shape, stylets and postocular setae distinguish this species from other species currently treated in Teuchothrips , and the metanotum is unusual ( Fig. 17 ) in bearing a group of small setae anterior to the median major setae.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 16. Teuchothrips species. T. acripilus holotype 10 – 12: (10) Head; (11) Pronotum; (12) Metanotum & pelta. T. badiipennis 13 – 14: (13) Antenna; (14) Female head & thorax. (15) T. ater forewing sub-basal setae. (16) T. burroughsi head & pronotum.

FIGURES 17 – 22. Teuchothrips species. (17) T. burroughsi metanotum & pelta. T. clavipilus holotype 18 – 19: (18) Metanotum & pelta; (19) Head. (20) T. melaleucae head of syntype. (21) T. disjunctus head & pronotum. (22) T. connatus head & pronotum.