Taeniothrips variegatus (Reyes) Reyes, 2015

Mirab-Balou, Majid, Mound, Laurence A. & Tong, Xiao-Li, 2015, New combinations and a new generic synonym in the genus Taeniothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 3964 (3), pp. 371-378 : 377

Taeniothrips variegatus (Reyes) comb.n.

Javathrips variegatus Reyes, 1994: 229 .

This species was described from the Philippines, Mindanao, on five females and three males, of which the holotype female and one male (in ANIC) have been studied. The head is little different from that of inconsequens , but ocellar setae III are unusually close together ( Fig. 2 ). The antennae are shorter even than picipes , with the apex of segment IV only weakly narrowed, however, the pronotum has only two pairs of posteromarginal setae. In the key to species ( Mound et al. 2012) this species keys to amomi, but the metanotal median setae are placed close together as in montivagus, although that has dark antennae.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. (1) Taeniothrips ciliaris, head and thorax; (2) Taeniothrips variegatus, head and thorax; (3 – 4) Taeniothrips euchariae, antennal segments of small and large female; (5) Taeniothrips damansarae, antenna; (6 – 8) Taeniothrips musae: (6) Antenna, (7) Female, holotype, (8) Abdominal sternites of male, showing pore plates.