Glyptothrips bucca ( 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 : 40

Glyptothrips bucca ( Hood, 1957b)

( Figs 9–13 )

This species is unique in lacking capitate setae on antennal segments II–IV ( Fig. 12 ), and in the shape of male pore plate, which is a small circle medially on sternite VIII ( Fig. 13 ). Another unusual trait in G. bucca is the reduction in the number of sense cones on antennal segment IV, from four to three. Only some individuals of G. flavescens share this character, and both species can be differentiated easily by number of antennal segments (seven in G. flavescens , eight in G. bucca ), and by thorax sculpture, which in G. bucca has a reticulate dorsal surface ( Fig. 10 ), while G. flavescens has the pronotal and metanotal sculpture modified into “tubercles”.

Known wing forms: micropterous.

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

Allotype ♂, same collection data and depositary as holotype.

Figures

FIGURES 9–13. Glyptothrips bucca, female holotype and male allotype. (9) Female. (10) Head, thorax, and abdominal segments I–III. (11) Abdominal segments VI–X. (12) Antenna. (13) Male pore plate on abdominal sternite VIII, a circular plate medially.