Stictothrips farsi Hakimara & Minaei & Sadeghi & Mound 2019, sp.n.
Creators: name: Hakimara, Mahsa
name: Minaei, Kambiz
name: Sadeghi, Saber
name: Mound, Laurence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Stictothrips
Stictothrips farsi

description: Stictothrips farsi sp.n.
Female aptera (Fig. 9). Body yellow with light brown markings and fine complex reticulate sculpture, distal part of tibiae and tarsi yellow, antennal segments II–III light brown, major setae light brown. Antennae 8-segmented, III with one sense cone, IV with two major sense cones, VIII narrowed at base but not constricted (Fig. 15). Head longer than wide, post ocular setae capitate, placed laterally on head, not extending beyond hind margin of eye (Fig. 31); mouth cone short. Pronotum with 4 pairs of relatively well-developed major setae (anteroangulars, midlaterals, epimerals, and posteroangulars), anteromarginals scarcely longer than discal setae, all pointed except epimeral that is blunt (Fig. 33); notopleural sutures complete. Prosternal ferna developed. Fore tarsal tooth developed (Fig. 31). Meso and metanotum very weakly sculptured. Metathoracic sternopleural sutures extend posteriorly from the midcoxal cavities. Pelta trapezoidal, with weak sculpture, campaniform sensilla present (Fig. 40); abdominal tergites II–VII with one pair of wing-retaining setae; segment IX with seta S1 and S2 pointed, about half as long as the tube; tube short, length less than twice basal width, shorter than head (Fig. 42).
Measurements (holotype female in microns): Body distended length 1752. Head, length 228; width across genae 173; post ocular setae 14. Pronotum, length 116; median width 176; major setae, anteromarginals 7, anteroangulars 15, midlaterals 18, epimerals 20, posteroangulars 15. Tergite IX setae S1 40, S2 50. Tube, length 99; basal width 53. Antennal segments I–VIII length 34, 50, 58, 57, 55, 48, 33, 30.
Male aptera. Generally similar to female but smaller and paler (Fig. 10). Fore leg and fore tarsal tooth well developed (Fig. 32); sternites VII and VIII with large poorly defined pore plate (Fig. 43). Aedeagus spoon shaped (Fig. 39).
Measurements (paratype male in microns): Body distended length 1455, Head, length 190; width across genae 148; post ocular setae 17. Pronotum, length 109; median width 160; major setae, anteromarginal 10, anteroangular 12, midlateral 11, epimeral 19, posteroangular 12. Tergite IX setae S1 36, S2 23. Tube, length 90; basal width 41. Antennal segments I–VIII length 28, 44, 46, 51, 56, 46, 33, 26.
Material studied. Holotype female, IRAN, Fars province, Eghlid, Salicaceae and Platanaceae leaf litter, 4.ix.2015 (in NHM).
Paratypes: IRAN, Fars province, Arjan protected area, 60 km west of Shiraz, 2 females, 1 male from Quercus leaf litter, 2.v.2015 (in PPSU, 1 female in ANIC); Fasa, 2 males from Prunus and Pistacia leaf litter, 3.xii.2016 (Mohsen Kiani) (in PPSU & ANIC).
Comments. The shape of head, delicate sculpturing and the sense cone formula on antennal segments III & IV suggest that the new species belongs to Stictothrips. However, the curious short and laterally placed post ocular setae on the head and the paired round pore plates on sternite VIII of the male make this species unique in the genus. It shares some characters with the Australian species S. aoristus in the wing reduction and resultant loss of certain character states.
description: Published as part of Hakimara, Mahsa, Minaei, Kambiz, Sadeghi, Saber & Mound, Laurence, 2019, Fungus-feeding thrips in Iran with a new species of Stictothrips (Thysanoptera Phlaeothripidae), pp. 557-567 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 563, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3364944