Teuchothrips soror (Hood)

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 : 472

Teuchothrips soror (Hood)

( Figs 103–106 )

Rhynchothrips soror Hood, 1918: 138 .

This species was transferred to the genus Teuchothrips in an account of the Liothrips species from Australia ( Mound et al. 2023). It is known only from a single female that was collected by Girault in 1913, near Cairns in northern Queensland. Hood described this specimen as bearing a long, hooked tooth on the fore tarsus. Although macropterous, the pelta and metanotum of the holotype are unusually broad ( Figs 105 ), such as would be expected in a micropterous individual. The images ( Figs 103-106 ) are of the holotype in the USNM, Washington, and were kindly prepared by Elison Lima.

Figures

FIGURES 96–106. Teuchothrips of Australia. T. simplicipennis 96–101: (96) head & pronotum; (97) antenna; (98) metanotum & pelta; (99) prosternites; (100) male sternite VIII; (101) tergites IX–X. (102) T. sodalis metanotum. T. soror 103–106: (103) head; (104) antenna; (105) metanotum & pelta; (106) prosternites.