Taeniothrips species

Mound, L. A., Azidah, A. A. & Ng, Y. F., 2012, Key to the non-fossil species of the genus Taeniothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 3414 (1), pp. 33-42 : 35

Key to Taeniothrips species

* included only from description; see Note 7 below for four excluded species

1. Fore wing with alternating dark and light bands.............................................................. 2

- Fore wing uniformly shaded or with base paler.............................................................. 3

2. Fore wing with two transverse dark bands alternating with sub-basal and median paler areas, apex of wing dark....... tigris *

-. Fore wing with one dark band, apex of wing pale..................................................... coreanus *

3. Abdominal tergites IV–VII with weak reticulation medially between setal pair S2 ( Fig. 16 )..... major ; orionis ; glanduculus

-. Abdominal tergites IV–VII with no sculpture mesad of setal pair S2 ( Fig. 15 )..................................... 4

4. Fore wing first vein with 2 setae near apex but none medially.............................................. fallax

-. Fore wing with at least one seta medially as well as 2 or more setae near apex...................................... 5

5. Fore wing first vein with 3–6 setae distally; female sternite VII setal pair S2 arising at margin......................... 6

-. Fore wing first vein with only 2 setae distally and one medially; female sternite VII setal pair S2 arising sub-marginally.... 7

6. Fore tarsus with strongly recurved terminal claw; pronotal inner posteroangular setal pair less than 0.65 as long as pronotum; sternal pore plates of male 30 microns wide....................................................... inconsequens

-. Fore tarsus with no terminal claw; pronotal inner posteroangular setal pair more than 0.8 as long as pronotum; sternal pore plates of male 70 microns wide....................................................................... arbuti

7. Fore wing paler at base, with clavus usually darker.......................................................... 8

-. Fore wing evenly shaded including base and clavus......................................................... 10

8. Antennal segment III mainly dark brown; pronotum usually with transverse lines of sculpture medially; antennal segment VI usually without microtrichia near base............................................................... eucharii

-. Antennal segment III yellow or weakly shaded near apex; pronotum with no sculpture lines medially; antennal segment VI with a few microtrichia near base........................................................................ 9

9. Abdominal tergite I median setae longer and stouter than median pair on tergite II; metanotal median setae not at anterior margin....................................................................................... zurstrasseni *

-. Abdominal tergite I median setae neither longer nor stouter than median pair on tergite II; metanotal median setal pair close to anterior margin.................................................................. picipes ; oreophilus ; orchidi

10. Antennal segments III–VIII pale, III often almost clear yellow ( Fig. 19 )......................................... 11

-. Antennal segments III–VIII mainly dark brown, III scarcely paler ( Figs 18, 20 )................................... 14

11. Ocellar setae III ( Figs 8, 9 ) and pronotal posteroangular setae ( Fig. 3 ) with apices blunt or bearing two apical microtrichia......................................................................................... damansarae sp.n.

-. Ocellar setae III and pronotal major setae finely acute....................................................... 12

12. Pronotal posterior margin with 4 pairs of setae; pronotum and vertex strongly transversely striate; ocellar setae pair II sometimes duplicated........................................................................... euophthalmos

-. Pronotal posterior margin with 2 pairs of setae; pronotum weakly reticulate/striate; ocellar setae pair II never duplicated.. 13

13. Antennal segment IV about 65 microns, subequal to segment III........................................... amomi

-. Antennal segment IV about 85 microns, 1.2 times as long as segment III.................................. nomoceras

14. Metanotal median setal pair very close together, distance between their basal pores scarcely twice the diameter of these pores ( Fig. 4 )...................................................................................... montivagus

-. Distance between basal pores of median metanotal setae at least 3 times their diameter.............................. 15

15. Antennal segment III about 85 microns long, with elongate apical neck................................... miorhizae

-. Antennal segment III about 65 microns long, with apex narrowed ( Fig. 18 )............................... cognaticeps

Figures

FIGURES 10–16. Taeniothrips species. Male tergites VIII–IX 10–13: (10) orionis; (11) eucharii; (12) fallax; (13) damansarae. (14) damansarae female tergites VI–X. Female tergite V 15–16: (15) eucharii, (16) major.

FIGURES 17–21. Taeniothrips species antenna. (17) fallax; (18) cognaticeps; (19) damansarae; (20) montivagus; (21) orchidi.

FIGURES 2–9. Taeniothrips species. (2) picipes; (3) damansarae; (4) montivagus; (5) fallax; (6) major; (7) damansarae male sternites; (8–9) damansarae ocellar setae pair III – 8, paratype female; 9, holotype female.