Holopothrips mariae Mound & Marullo

Lindner, Mariana F., Ferrari, Augusto, Mound, Laurence A. & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2018, Holopothrips diversity-a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing insects (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 4494 (1), pp. 1-99 : 65-67

Holopothrips mariae Mound & Marullo

( Figs 183–187 )

Holopothrips mariae Mound & Marullo, 1996: 298 . Diagnostic features. Body (except antenna) uniformly brown; maxillary stylets V-shaped; usually one pair of long setae on epimeral region, sometimes a second smaller seta present; basantra present; metanotal sculpture formed by elongate reticulation, with very faint internal markings in some reticles; setal pairs S1–S3 on tergite IX with acute apex; males with pore plates on segments VI–VIII; female spermatheca enlarged medially.

Comments. This is a small-bodied member of the genus (observed specimens less than 1900 µm long), with short head and antennae and V-shaped maxillary stylets in the head ( Fig. 184 ). According to Mound and Marullo (1996), the length of am setae on pronotum is highly variable, as well as the presence of a second pair of long setae on the epimera. Most type specimens have only two sense cones on antennal segments III–IV, but at least one specimen with a third sense cone on antennal segment III was recorded. Males have a slender transverse pore plate on sternites VI–VIII, with VIII also having paired anterolateral pore plates. It was described from specimens collected by fogging in Amazonian floodplain forest in Peru.

Material studied. 1 male and 1 female paratypes; Peru, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Reserve , 30 km S.W. of Pto. Maldonato, 290 m (12°50’S 69°20’W), fogging from ground on primary floodplain, 27.x.1983 (Stork, N.), at BMNH.

Figures

FIGURES 183–190. Holopothrips mariae and H. molzi. 183–187. Holopothrips mariae paratypes: (183) body; (184) head and pronotum; (185) mesonotum, metanotum and pelta; (186) spermatheca; (187) prosternum, showing basantra (white arrows); 188–190. Holopothrips molzi paratypes: (188) body; (189) head and prosternum; (190) pronotum, mesonotum, metanotum, pelta and abdominal tergite II.