Acallurothrips erubi Mound & Tree 2021, sp.n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Tree, Desley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Acallurothrips
Acallurothrips erubi

description: Acallurothrips erubi sp.n.
(Figs 4, 15, 25, 35)
Female macroptera. Body brown with distal abdominal segments darker and tube black; legs brown with mid and hind femora variably yellow distally and ventrally; antennal segments I–III mainly yellow with III shaded in apical half, IV–VIII increasingly brown; fore wings strongly shaded with darker longitudinal line. Head wider than long, postocular setae pointed and longer than eye length; maxillary stylets retracted to level of eyes, widely spaced (Fig. 15). Antennal segment III with 2 sense cones, IV with 4, all sense cones curved, the ventral pair on IV being strongly curved; suture between segments VII and VIII present ventrally but not dorsally (Fig 25). Pronotum smooth, with 5 pairs of major setae, am setae smallest, epim setae long; notopleural sutures complete. Prosternal basantra weakly sclerotised but usually bearing one seta, ferna transverse, mesopresternum reduced to irregular median sclerite; metathoracic sternopleural sutures broadly eroded. Metanotum very weakly reticulate. Fore wing without duplicated cilia, one sub-basal seta elongate. Pelta reticulate, transverse, close to anterior margin of tergite II but variably eroded postero-medially (Fig. 35); tergites II‒VII with no wing-retaining setae defined, setal pair S3 very long and fine, much longer than posteroangular pair S4; tergite VIII setal pair S1 long and fine, S3 short and slightly stout; tergite IX setae S1 and S2 long and fine and slightly longer than tube, S3 shorter; intermediate setae SB1 short and fine, SB2 half as long as S1. Tube bee-hive shaped, sharply constricted to anal ring (Fig 4).
Measurements (holotype female in microns). Body length 1800. Head, length 155; width 200; postocular setae 90. Pronotum, length 115; width 285; major setae—am 20, aa 25, ml 35, epim 85, pa 65. Fore wing, length 750; longest sub-basal seta 95. Tergite V setae S3 110. Tergite IX setae—S1 200, SB1 35, SB2 15, S2 220, S3 175. Tube, length 220; maximum width 160; width at anal ring 30. Antennal segments III–VII length 55, 50, 50, 45, 70.
Male aptera. Very similar to female in colour and structure, meso and metanota more transverse; head without ocelli; metanotal reticulation weak; tergal setae S1, S2 and S3 long and fine; tergite IX lacking setal pair SB2.
Specimens studied. Holotype female, Australia, Queensland, Darnley Island [S9.5797, E143.7790], from dead twigs, 17.xi.2009 (LAM5293), in ANIC.
Paratypes: 4 females taken with holotype; Cairns, James Cook University [S16.814 E 145.685], 2 females, 1 male from dead branches, 3.xi.2008.
Comments. This species is closely similar to nogutii Kurosawa but has the tube distinctly more robust (Fig. 4). Erub is an original name for Darnley Island.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2021, Tubuliferous Thysanoptera inAustralia with an enlarged tenth abdominal segment (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), including six new species, pp. 167-181 in Zootaxa 4951 (1) on pages 170-171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4655899