Enneothrips fulbrightae Vieira & O'Donnell & Lima 2024, sp. n.
Creators: name: Vieira, Daniel Elizeu
name: O'Donnell, Cheryle A.
name: Lima, Élison Fabrício B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Enneothrips
Enneothrips fulbrightae

description: Enneothrips fulbrightae sp. n.
(Figs 10, 11, 22, 32, 42, 52, 60, 69)
Female macroptera. Body color brown (Fig. 10). Antennal segments I–II brown, III light brown with pale base, IV brown with light brown extreme base, V–IX brown (Fig. 22). Femora brown, except for base of mid femur; tibiae yellow with brown area medially. Fore wing brown, with basal quarter pale (Fig. 52). Ocellar triangle with transverse lines of sculpture, ocellar setae III just outside the triangle; posterior area of head transversely striate (Fig. 32); mouth cone not surpassing prosternum. Pronotum transversely striate (Fig. 32). Mesonotum transversely striate, about 20 lines of sculpture. Metanotum transversely striate anteriorly and reticulate posteriorly, with internal markings inside reticles (Fig. 42). Abdominal tergites II–VII with around 20 transverse lines of sculpture on lateral thirds (Fig. 60); II–VII with posteromarginal comb of microtrichia incomplete medially, VIII with complete comb of microtrichia.
Measurements— holotype in microns: Body length 1400. Head length 75, width 125; Pronotum, length 105, width 160. Fore wing, length 600; antennal segments I–IX length, respectively 18, 32, 40, 40, 38, 38, 12, 10, 15.
Male macroptera. Similar to female, but smaller (Fig. 11). Broad transverse opening close to antecostal ridge of abdominal sternite III associated with subcutaneous gland situated between sternites II–III (Fig. 69).
Measurements— paratype in microns: Body length 930. Head, length 70, width 105; Pronotum, length 85, width 135. Fore wing, length 540; antennal segments I–IX length, respectively 18, 20, 27, 30, 35, 32, 10, 10, 27.
Etymology. The species is named after the Fulbright Commission (feminine noun in Latin) in view of its continuous support to science in general and to the support provided for the research to describe this new species.
Material studied: Female holotype: Brazil. Acre: Rio Branco, unidentified host, vii.2019 (E.F.B.Lima & E.A.Miyasato col.) (CHNUFPI). Paratypes. Brazil. Acre: Rio Branco, five females and one male collected with the holotype (E.F.B.Lima & E.A.Miyasato col.) (CHNUFPI).
Comments: Enneothrips fulbrightae sp. n. resembles E. fuscus and E. subtilis in general body color and in sharing the sculpture on the ocellar triangle. However, E. fulbrightae differs from E. fuscus in lacking microtrichia on the lateral transverse lines of sculpture on abdominal tergites I–VIII; with antennal segments III–V darker than E. fuscus. The new species differs from E. subtilis, by metanotum reticulate posteriorly with internal markings (Fig. 42), in contrast to longitudinal striation on metanotum posteriorly, without internal markings (Fig. 46). Moreover, the head of the new species also has dense lines of sculpture as compared to E. subtilis.
description: Published as part of Vieira, Daniel Elizeu, O'Donnell, Cheryle A. & Lima, Élison Fabrício B., 2024, Enneothrips Hood: a Neotropical genus of leaf-feeding thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with generic diagnosis and four new species, pp. 563-577 in Zootaxa 5397 (4) on page 573, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/10469196