Anaphothrips westringiae Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Anaphothrips
Anaphothrips westringiae

description: Anaphothrips westringiae sp. n.   
(Figs 153–157)  
 Female macroptera. Body and legs yellow, tergites II–VI with pair of brown areas anterolaterally; antennal segment I white, II–IX brown but III–IV slightly paler; major setae on abdominal tergites IX–X dark; fore wings weakly shaded. Head wider than long, reticulate behind eyes but no sculpture in ocellar triangle; eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocellar setae III on anterior margins of triangle (Fig. 155). Antennae 9-segmented, III–IV with small forked sensorium; segment VI short; II without microtrichia; VI narrowed to base but not pedicellate (Fig. 153). Pronotum with irregular sculpture lines (Fig. 155). Metascutum irregularly reticulate, median setae not at anterior margin; MCS absent (Fig. 154). Fore wing setae small, first vein with about 9 setae basally, 2 medially and 2 distally; second vein with 8–9 setae; clavus with 6 veinal but no discal setae. Abdominal tergites III–VI with no sculpture medially; lateral sculpture lines not extending mesad of setae S2; lateral lines with dentate microtrichia, extending mesad on VII–VIII (Fig. 156); posteromarginal comb on VIII with about 10 short fine microtrichia medially but usually none laterally; spiracles slightly enlarged; X with complete dorsal split; major setae on IX–X stout with chisel-shaped apices. Sternites with dentate microtrichia laterally on sculpture lines.   
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1100. Head, length 90; width across eyes 135. Pronotum, length 110; maximum width 160. Fore wing, length 500; median width 40; first vein longest seta in basal row 7. Tergite IV S1 setae 7. Tergite IX, MD setae 5; PM S1 setae 55. Tergite X PM S1 setae 55. Antennal segments III–IX, 40, 35, 35, 22, 10, 7, 12.   
 Male macroptera. Similar to but smaller than female; tergite IX with 2 pairs of short stout setae medially; sternites III–VII with small C-shaped pore plate, reduced to a curve on VII (Fig. 157).   
 Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Black Mtn, from leaves of cultivated Westringia fruticosa (Lamiaceae), 5.ii.2007 (LAM).   
Paratypes: 9 females 5 males taken with holotype and larvae.  
 Comments. The plant species from which this thrips was collected has a natural distribution along the eastern coast of Australia, but is also widely cultivated as a garden plant. This thrips species has the posteromarginal comb on tergite VIII similar to that of A. geleznowiae, but that Western Australian species has the metascutal campaniform sensilla present, long setaceous setae on tergite IX of females, and males with large C-shaped pore plates. Moreover, antennal segment VI is unusually short in A. westringiae.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983