Neohydatothrips hemileucus (Hood)

Neohydatothrips hemileucus (Hood) View in CoL

( Figs 23 View FIGURES 15 – 23 , 47 View FIGURES 41 – 49 , 95, 96 View FIGURES 92 – 103 )

Sericothrips hemileucus Hood, 1952: 144 View in CoL .

Female macroptera. Colour: body bicoloured ( Fig. 95 View FIGURES 92 – 103 ), head brown, pronotum yellow with posteroangular setae dark brown, mesonotum and metanotum brown, tergites II–IV light brown, V–VI yellow, VII dark brown, VIII–X yellow; fore wing with 3 dark and 3 pale bands, apex pale, clavus dark with stout dark setae; antennal segments I– II pale, III–IV yellow with light brown apices; hind tibiae yellow, femora shaded with light brown.

Structure: Occipital apodeme distant from eyes; ocellar area closely striate, postocular setae in longitudinal row close to eye ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 15 – 23 ); antennal segments III & IV slender with an apical neck; pronotum transversely striate with no internal markings, blotch not defined except for anterior apodeme ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 15 – 23 ); mesonotum and metanotum closely striate ( Fig. 47 View FIGURES 41 – 49 ); metasternal plate with shallow emargination; fore wing second vein with no setae; tergites VII–VIII with complete comb of long microtrichia on posterior margin, no comb medially on remaining tergites; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae.

Male macroptera. Similar to but smaller than female and tergite VIII brown ( Fig. 96 View FIGURES 92 – 103 ).

Material studied. Holotype female, BRAZIL, São Paulo State, Salesópolis , 8.vi.1948 ( USNM) ; Santa Catarina State, Nova Teutônia [ Seara], 16 females 2 males, v & x–xii.1949, xi.1955, and vii.1957, mainly from Solanum sp. and Balfourodendron licanum ( USNM) ; São Paulo State, Piracicaba , 1 female from Dracena marginata colourama, 16.viii.1993 ( E. Bergmann) ( ESALQ) .

Comments. Described from 2 females from São Paulo ( vi.1948), and one from Nova Teutônia ( i.1949), the structure of the head with the transverse apodeme far behind the eyes is unusual, as are the slender antennae.