Body brown and fore wings uniformly pale. Antenna 8-segmented and head with a very long mouth cone; pronotum with a pair of short posteroangular setae but with no long setae on anterior margin. Median abdominal sternites with discal setae.
Male not studied.
Intraspecific variation
Apterous and macropterous specimens were studied.
Genus and similar species information
Aneristothrips is a South American genus which includes only two species, one described from Argentina and the other from Brazil. The mouth-cone is remarkably long and pointed, reaching the mesosternum. This group shares some characteristics with Frankliniella, but has a well developed craspedum on abdominal tergites I–VIII and lacks a spinula on the mesothoracic endofurca. Aneristothrips rostratus cannot be satisfactorily distinguished from A. claripennis, although the first does not have long posteroangular setae on pronotum.
Cavalleri A & Gonçalves S (2022) Novos registros e checklist das espécies de Thysanoptera do Pampa Brasileiro. Entomological Communications 4: ec04014: 1–3.
Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–488.
Published in: 18/01/2017 Posted by: Mariana Lindner
