A new species of Charassothrips Hood from Colombia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with an updated key to the known species
1Neiker-Tecnalia, Basque Institute of Agricultural Research and Development, Department of Plant Production and
Protection, Granja Modelo Arkaute, Antigua Carretera Nacional 1 km 255 E-01080 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO, Entomology, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
Abstract
Charassothrips macroseta sp.n. is described and illustrated from Colombia. A key is provided to the five species now recognised in the Neotropical genus Charassothrips, each of which has the head and pronotum, mesonotum and metanotum prominently sculptured and the abdominal tergites with a craspedum on the posterior margins.
Keywords: taxonomy, biodiversity, neotropical, Charassothrips macroseta new species
Correspondence: aagoldarazena@neiker.net, bLaurence.mound@csiro.au
Received: 10 January 2010 | Accepted: 14 March 2010 | Published: 22 June 2010
Copyright: This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed.
ISSN: 1536-2442 | Volume 10, Number 70
Goldarazena A, Mound L. 2010. A new species of Charassothrips Hood from Colombia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with an updated key to the known species. Journal of Insect Science 10:70, available online: insectscience.org/10.70
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