Mesandrothrips googongi Mound & Tree 2019, sp.n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Tree, Desley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Mesandrothrips
Mesandrothrips googongi

description: Mesandrothrips googongi sp.n.
(Figs 7, 11, 17, 21)
Female macroptera. Body and femora brown, tarsi yellow, mid and hind tibiae brown with base paler and apex yellow, fore tibiae brownish yellow; antennal segments I & II brown, III light brown with basal third yellow, IV–VIII light brown; fore wing pale with weak shading sub-medially; major setae all pale. Antennal segment III sub-globose with short basal third (Fig. 11), sense cones short and stout; IV–VII each with distinct pedicel; VIII slender but not sharply narrowed to base. Head almost as wide as long (Fig. 21); vertex without sculpture except laterally and near posterior margin; postocular setae capitate, shorter than dorsal eye length; maxillary stylets wide apart, retracted almost to postocular setae, maxillary bridge well developed. Pronotum wider than long, without sculpture except for median longitudinal apodeme; four pairs of major capitate setae present but am setae not larger than discal setae (Fig. 21). Mesonotum with weak sculpture, lateral setae capitate; metanotum almost without sculpture anteromedially, weakly reticulate posteromedially, median setae small and acute. Fore tarsus with prominent tooth. Fore wing sub-basal setae all capitate; six duplicated cilia present. Mesoprestemum entire. Pelta triangular but with posterolateral comers prominent; tergites II–VII each with two pairs of sigmoid wing-retaining setae, also two pairs of capitate posteroangular setae, except that S2 on VII are finely acute; tergite IX setae S1 capitate, S2 pointed.
Measurements (holotype female in microns). Body length 1730. Head, length 160; width 145; postocular setae 35. Pronotum, length 110; width 200; major setae, aa 35, ml 35, epim 50, pa 40. Fore wing length 720; subbasal setae 35, 35, 50. Tergite IV posteromarginal setae S1 70, S2 35. Tergite IX setae S1 80; S2 90. Tube, length 110; basal width 50. Antennal segments III-VIII length, 40, 42, 40, 38, 38, 26.
Male macroptera. Similar to female in colour, sculpture and structure; tergite IX setae S1 capitate, S2 short and stout; pseudovirga similar to that of many Haplothrips species (Fig. 17).
Measurements (paratype male in microns). Body length 1450. Head, length 160; width 130; postocular setae 25. Tergite IX setae S1 55; S2 30. Tube, length 100; basal width 45.
Material studied. Holotype female, Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Googong Dam, beaten from Acacia sp., 28.ii.1998 (LAM 3671), in ANIC.
Paratypes: 1 female, 1 male taken with holotype; same locality and date, 2 females from Dillwynia sieberi; same locality, 1 male from Acacia falciformis, 28.iii.1999.
Comments. This species is one of the clavipes group, but is distinguished by the rather shorter third antennal segment (Fig. 11), and the capitate S1 setae on the ninth tergite.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2019, Rediagnoses of the Asian genera Xylaplothrips and Mesandrothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae, Haplothripini), with keys to Australian species, pp. 327-341 in Zootaxa 4613 (2) on page 334, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3238971