Teuchothrips longiseta (Girault)

Mound, Laurence A., Dang, Lihong & Tree, Desley J., 2023, Structural diversity among the leaf-feeding thrips of Australia in the genus Teuchothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) with 20 new species, Zootaxa 5383 (4), pp. 441-475 : 464

Teuchothrips longiseta (Girault)

( Figs 68–70 )

Horistothrips longiseta Girault, 1926: 1 .

Girault states that this species was described from specimens taken at Brisbane, Queensland, from twig galls on Acacia linifolia . The slide that he labelled with the name and “ Types ” bears no other labels, but under two separate coverslips it includes rather more than 20 variously damaged females and one male ( Fig. 69 ). The species is closely similar in colour and structure to froggatti , with deeply retracted and closely spaced maxillary stylets ( Fig. 68 ), and the fourth antennal segment with only two sense cones. However, the only available fore wings on these froggatti specimens lack any duplicated cilia.

Specimens studied. Syntype females and male, Queensland, Brisbane , from twig galls on Acacia linifolia , in QM . Queensland, Brisbane , 4 females, 1 male from Melaleuca galls, 10.xi.1962, in ANIC .

Figures

FIGURES 63–75. Teuchothrips of Australia. T. larrakia 63–64: (63) head & pronotum; (64) fore tarsus, male. T. leptospermum 65–67: (65) head & pronotum; (66) metanotum & pelta; (67) antenna. T. longiseta 68–70: (68) head & pronotum; (69) type slide; (70) metanotum & pelta. T. lutruwita 71–75: (71) antenna; (72) head; (73) metanotum & pelta; (74) prosternites; (75) tergites IX–X.