Anaphothrips varii Moulton, 1935

Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, Zootaxa 2042 (1), pp. 1-76 : 53-54

Anaphothrips varii Moulton

( Figs 148–149 )

Anaphothrips varii Moulton , in Moulton & Newman, 1935: 98

The holotype of this species was collected at Guilford, Western Australia, and is deposited in the California Academy of Sciences. It is a grass-living species, and although never collected in large numbers, female macropterae have been taken widely across southern Australia, including Tasmania, South Australia, southern New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory. The holotype aptera of A. moundi was collected together with macropterae of A. varii , and it seems likely that these represent the same species. They share the following characteristics; antennal segments annulated, segment III with pedicel widened near the base, body surface reticulated, abdominal tergite VIII with large spiracles. Moreover, the macropterae have the median two pairs of tergal setae unusually long.

Female macroptera. Body brown to dark brown, abdomen yellow laterally, head yellowish around ocellar triangle, pronotum partly yellow, tibiae and tarsi yellow; antennal segments brown; fore wings uniformly shaded; prominent body setae brown. Head as long as wide, produced in front of eyes, reticulate behind eyes but very weakly near ocelli ( Fig. 147 ); eyes with 6 weakly pigmented facets; ocellar setae III within ocellar triangle. Antennae 9-segmented, III with sensorium simple, base slightly wider just above pedicel; IV with sensorium forked; II–VI annulate, but II–III without microtrichia, VI sharply pedicellate ( Fig. 149 ). Pronotum weakly reticulate medially. Metascutum reticulate, median setae well behind anterior margin; MCS present. Fore wing veinal setae minute; second vein with no setae basal to vein fork; clavus with 4–5 veinal setae. Abdominal tergites reticulate medially, small microtrichia on sculpture lines laterally; II–VII with small tuberculate microtrichia on posterior margin laterally and sometimes medially, setae S3 and S4 shorter than S1 and S2; VIII with posteromarginal comb complete, microtrichia with wide bases; spiracles greatly enlarged, occupying at least half of tergal lateral margin ( Fig. 148 ). Sternite VII setae S1 close to posterior margin.

Male unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 148–156. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. varii 148–149: (148) tergites VII–VIII; (149) antenna. A. walchae 150–152: (150) antenna; (151) tergites VII–VIII; (152) head & pronotum. A. westringiae 153-156: (153) antenna; (154) meso & metanotum; (155) head & pronotum; (156) tergites VII–VIII.

FIGURES 140–147. Anaphothrips of Australia. A. sudanensis 140–142: (140) head; (141) male sternites; (142) tergites VII–VIII. A. swezeyi 143–146: (143) tergites VII–VIII; (144) antenna; (145) male sternites; (146) male tergites VIII–IX. (147) A. varii head.