Distinguishing features

Female macroptera. Body and legs yellow, antennal segment I white, II faintly shaded, III yellow, IV shaded at apex, V–IX palest brown; fore wings pale; tergite IX major setae pale. Head wider than long, with closely spaced sculpture lines behind eyes; eyes with 6 weakly pigmented facets; ocellar setae III outside ocellar triangle. Antennae 9-segmented; III–IV with sense cone forked, II without microtrichia; VI not pedicellate, suture between VI–VII oblique. Pronotum with faint well-spaced, transverse lines; with no long setae, discal setae small. Metascutal sculpture reticulate; median setae fine and well back from anterior margin; campaniform sensilla absent. Fore wing first vein with about 8 setae basally, 2 setae medially and 2 setae near apex; second vein with 9–11 setae; clavus with 5–6 veinal setae plus one seta at base. Abdominal tergites II–VII with no sculpture medially, lateral to setae S2 with about 7 lines bearing indistinct microtrichia; VIII with long regular marginal comb.
Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite IX medially with two pairs of setae scarcely thickened; sternite III with broad, transverse pore plate, slightly curved and close to anterior margin.

Related species

There are 43 species of Anaphothrips known from Australia (Mound & Masumoto, 2009), out of a total of 86 species worldwide (ThripsWiki, 2020). Many of these species have the antennae clearly 9-segmented, others clearly have only 8 segments, but several species have an intermediate condition with segment VI bearing a partial and often oblique transverse suture as in A. barringtoni. The pronotal setae are short, and the fore wing clavus has no discal seta. Some species in this genus can be recognised only in the male sex. A. barringtoni females are similar to those of A. barrowi but the pore plate on the third sternite of the male is broader.

Biological data

Adults taken from leaves of Urtica sp. [Urticaceae], but this may not be the real host plant.

Distribution data

Recorded only in New South Wales.

Family name

THRIPIDAE - THRIPINAE

Species name

Anaphothrips barringtoni Mound & Masumoto

Original name and synonyms

Anaphothrips barringtoni Mound & Masumoto, 2009: 21.

References

Mound LA & Masumoto M (2009) Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species. Zootaxa 2042: 1–76. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02042p076.pdf