Glyptothrips silvaticus ( Hood, 1957b )

Lindner, Mariana Flores, Ferrari, Augusto, Lima, Élison Fabrício Bezerra & Cavalleri, Adriano, 2023, Morphological identification of Glyptothrips species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 5375 (1), pp. 31-57 : 51

Glyptothrips silvaticus ( Hood, 1957b)

( Figs 61–65 )

This is a paler species than most Glyptothrips , with a greyish yellow or light brown colour ( Fig. 61 ), contrasting to the dark brown or golden yellow shades more commonly seen in the genus. The sternal pore plate of males is a narrow transverse band, a trait more commonly seen in North American Glyptothrips species. The only other Brazilian species with this type of pore plate is G. subcalvus , a much darker species with several morphological differences to G. silvaticus ( Table 2 ). It also bears thickened and capitate setae on all femora ( Fig. 63 ) like G. fuscipes , but they are not as straight and elongate as in that mostly dark brown species.

Known wing forms: micropterous.

Specimens studied. Lectotype ♀; Brazil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia , under fallen leaves, vi.1954 (F. Plaumann), at NMNH.

Figures

FIGURES 61–65. Glyptothrips silvaticus, female holotype. (61) Female. (62) Head, thorax and pelta; VL—ventrolateral setae. (63) Foreleg; FT—femoral thickened setae. (64) Antenna. (65) Abdominal segments VII–X.