Heterothrips
Creators: name: Borbón, Carlos Manuel De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Heterothripidae
Heterothrips

description: Key of species of Heterothrips from Argentina
[Excluding H. pastranai because no material was available]
1. Posterior margin of abdominal tergites with microtrichia arising from craspeda (Figs 24–25) .................................. 2
-. Posterior margin of abdominal tergites with independent microtrichia, without craspeda (Figs 4, 8, 9, 15, 19, 20)... 3
2. Craspedum entire across tergites, margin not lobed (Fig. 24) ..................................................................... marginatus
-. Craspedum with short discontinuous lobes, bearing microtrichia (Fig. 25)..................................................... moestus
3. Sternites with stout discal setae (Fig. 27); antennal segments III and IV with broad sensorial band, apparently with three rows of pores (Fig. 28) ................................................................................................................................. c acti
-. Sternites without discal setae (Fig. 26); antennal segments III and IV with narrow sensorial band, apparently with only one or two rows of small pores (Figs 29–30) ...................................................................................................... 4
4. Antennal segments III and IV apparently with double row of sensorial pores (Fig. 29); males yellow to light brown ............................................................................................................................................................... myrceugenellae
-. Antennal segments III and IV apparently with one row of sensorial pores (Fig. 30); males often as brown as female ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
5. Mid and hind tibiae yellowish, paler than femora; basal quarter of forewing with a clear band in contrast to the brown of rest of wing (Fig. 37) ......................................................................................................................? flavitibia
-. Mid and hind tibiae as dark brown as femor ............................................................................................................... 6
6. Forewing greyish brown with diffuse pale area in basal 2/5 (Fig. 31); tergites II–V with microtrichia at middle of posterior margin (Fig. 8), tergites IX and X sub-equal in length (Fig 11–12); males with pore plates on sternites III– VIII (Fig. 6) .............................................................................................................................................. pilarae sp.n.
-. Forewing uniformly brown except a subasal small white fleck (Fig. 32); tergites II–V without microtrichia at middle of posterior margin (Figs19–20); tergite X much shorter than tergite IX (Figs 22–23); males with pore plates only on sternites VI–VIII (Fig. 17) ......................................................................................................................... stellae sp.n.
description: Published as part of Borbón, Carlos Manuel De, 2010, The Heterothrips species of Argentina, with two new species and biological notes (Thysanoptera, Heterothripidae), pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2562 on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197145