Anaphothrips chortinus 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 chortinus

description: Anaphothrips chortinus sp. n.   
(Figs 44–45)  
 Female macroptera. Body and legs yellow; tergites II–VII with paired brown areas laterally, pterothorax weakly shaded laterally; antennal segment I white, II and IV–IX brown, III mainly yellow; fore wings weakly shaded, clavus darkest. Head wider than long; reticulate behind eyes, weakly sculptured in ocellar triangle (Fig. 49); ocellar setae III on margins of triangle just anterior to hind ocelli; eyes with no pigmented facets. Antennae 9-segmented; forked sensorium on III short and curved; II with short microtrichia on transverse lines; VI with short pedicel (Fig. 50). Pronotum with sculpture markings. Metascutum reticulate (Fig. 48), median setae well posterior to anterior margin, MCS present. Fore wing first vein with about 10 setae basally, 2 medially and 2 distally; second vein with about 10 setae; clavus with 6 veinal setae plus one seta at base. Abdominal tergites with weak reticulate sculpture medially, laterally with prominent dentate microtrichia (Fig. 51); VIII with spiracle large, posterior margin with comb of microtrichia of which the bases are fused to form a continuous craspedum. Sternites with dentate microtrichia laterally on sculpture lines.   
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1550. Head, length 130; width across eyes 150. Pronotum, length 130; maximum width 180. Fore wing, length 650; median width 50; first vein longest seta in basal row 15. Tergite IV S1 setae 12. Tergite IX, MD setae 12; PM S1 setae 85. Tergite X PM S1 setae 90. Antennal segments III–IX, 45, 45, 45, 40, 10, 7, 12.   
 Female microptera. Similar to macroptera; fore wing lobe shorter than width of mesonotum.   
 Male microptera. Similar to female; tergite IX with one pair of short stout setae medially and paired large dark drepanae posterolaterally that curve dorso-medially (Fig. 47); sternites III–VII with broad C-shaped pore plate (Fig. 46).   
 Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera. Australian Capital Territory, Black Mtn, CSIRO Entomology, from native? Poa, 23.xi.2001 (LAM).   
 Paratypes: 2 female micropterae taken with holotype. New South Wales, Cabbage Tree Creek, near Nelligen, 2 male micropterae from grasses, 13.i.1999; Lake Chichester Dam, 1 female macroptera from grass, 23.xii.2000. Victoria, Genoa, 1 female microptera from native Poa, 30.xii.2004. Queensland, Brisbane, from native Poa, Mt Cootha, 1 female microptera, 20.v.2004; 1 male microptera, 16.i.2006.   
 Comments. This grass-living species is apparently widespread in eastern Australia. It has a distinctive posterior margin on tergite VIII, with the bases of the slender microtrichia fused to form a small continuous craspedum (Fig. 51), and the sculpture laterally on the abdomen is strongly dentate. The males are remarkable for the pair of strong, incurved, drepanae on the ninth tergite (Fig. 47). The two male paratypes from near Nelligen have the anterior tergites far more robustly sculptured than in females, but the paratype male from Brisbane has weaker tergal sculpture.
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 page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983