Glyptothrips fuscipes (Hood, 1954: 40). 

Original reference: Hood JD (1954) Brasilian Thysanoptera IV. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 67: 17–54. 

Family

Phlaeothripidae, Phlaeothripinae

Nomenclatural information 

https://thrips.info/wiki/Glyptothrips_fuscipes 

Diagnosis

Female micropterous; body color mainly brown, with apical half of head, abdominal segment IX, apical half of fore femora, knees and all tarsi slightly paler; antennomere I yellow to light brown, II brown, III–VIII brown with yellow bases. Antennae 8-segmented, basal antennomeres with stout and capitate setae; III with 3 and IV with 4 sense cones. Head strongly reticulated, about 1.3 times as long as the greatest width; only the postocular setae is well-developed and capitate, slightly shorter than the length of the eye; lateral margins straight and constricted behind globose eyes; maxillary stylets about half of head width apart from each other. Pronotum reticulated, with 4 pairs of well-developed and capitate setae, anteromarginal pair reduced or absent; prosternal basantra present. Meso- and metanotum strongly reticulated. Pterothorax with a pair of stout and capitate ventrolateral setae on each segment. Pelta trapezoidal and reticulated; abdomen strongly sculptured, tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae. Tube cone-shaped, weakly reticulated only at base and without lateral setae, about 2,4x as long as basal width. All legs similar in appearance, all femora and fore tibiae with some long and capitate setae, tibiae without tubercles, fore tarsi with a tooth. Fore wings without duplicated cilia.

Male micropterous. Similar to female, except for having setae S2 of abdominal tergite IX shorter. Pore plate present on abdominal sternite VIII, covering almost the entire sternite.

Intraspecific variation

Unknown.

Genus and similar species information

Glyptothrips is a genus with 14 valid species, with an apparently disjunct distribution between North and South America. The members of this genus have a strongly sculptured body, but tube usually smooth; head incut behind small, globose but well-developed eyes; postocular and main pronotal setae (except anteromarginal pair) well-developed and with capitate apex; and most species bear strong and capitate setae on basal antennomeres and/or ventrolateral region of pterothorax. Glyptothrips fuscipes is distinguished from the other brazilian species in the genus for having fully brown legs, with a similar color to the body, and multiple stout and capitate setae in all femora. A key to the Brazilian Glyptothrips species is available in Lindner et al. (2023).

Distribution around the world

Described from Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Distribution in Brazil

http://fauna.jbrj.gov.br/fauna/faunadobrasil/68486 

Life history

Lives in leaf-litter, where it possibly feeds on fungal hyphae.

Economic importance

Not recorded.

Suggested references

Hood JD (1954) Brasilian Thysanoptera IV. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 67: 17–54. 

Mound LA (1977) Species diversity and the systematics of some New World leaf-litter Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripinae; Glyptothripini). Systematic Entomology 2: 225-244. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1977.tb00371.x 

Lindner MF, Ferrari A, Lima EFB & Cavalleri A (2023) Morphological identification of Glyptothrips species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Zootaxa 5375 (1): 031–057. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5375.1.2