<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Teuchothrips longiseta Girault</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h1> <i>Teuchothrips longiseta</i> (Girault)</h1> <p> <i>Horistothrips longiseta</i> Girault, 1926: 1</p> <p> <i>Teuchothrips longiseta</i> (Girault); Mound & Houston, 1987: 18</p> <p>The original description was: “As <i>aerispilus</i> [sic] but distal bristles abdomen pale, postoculars closer to margin, 2 small setae between posterior bristles prothorax. Males ex twig galls <i>Acacia linifolia</i>, Brisbane, Tryon. ” Girault left two slides of this species, bearing a total of about 24 individuals. These syntypes have been compared with a series of both sexes collected in 1962 from galls on a <i>Melaleuca</i> species at Brisbane.</p> <p>The chaetotaxy and body sculpture are remarkably similar to that of <i>froggatti</i>, but the number of forewing duplicated cilia ranges from 8 to 11. In contrast, the single known macroptera of <i>froggatti</i> has no duplicated cilia on the forewings, and this suggests that these are not the same species. The head is short and reticulate in <i>longiseta</i>, with the stylets retracted to the compound eyes and touching medially. Antennal segment III bears one sensorium, and segment IV bears 2 + 1 sensoria. In both sexes the fore tarsal tooth is long and slender, and the fore tibia does not bear a tubercle. Tergite IX setae S 1 are finely acute and as long as the tube, but the S 2 setae in males are shorter and capitate. The tube is longer than the head. As in <i>froggatti</i>, the male apparently has no glandular area on the eighth sternite.</p> </body> </html>