Rohrthrips patrickmuelleri Ulitzka 2019

Rohrthrips patrickmuelleri Ulitzka, 2019

Female. Body slightly contracted; pronotum dorsoventrally compressed; wings overlapping abdomen; legs folded under body or head, respectively, except for right fore leg and left mid leg.

Very similar to the holotype female in colour, size and body structure (see Ulitzka 2019, p. 32); wings somewhat shorter. This female enhances the characterisation of the species by its coarse reticulate pronotal sculpture; in the holotype this feature is preserved only at the posterior margin of the pronotal plate.

Measurements. Female MU-Fos-115/1 (in microns): Body, length 1470. Head, length 190; largest width 202. Eyes, length 82. Ocellar setae 32. Pronotum (dorsoventrally compressed), length 214; width 396; posteroangular setae about 107; epimeral setae 107. Pterothorax, largest width 378. Abdomen, length 921 (slightly contracted); largest width 473 (segment III); segment X (tube), length 151; basal width 63. Setae on tergite not measurable. Antennae, length 390. Fore wings, length 963; largest width 201.

Material studied. Female MU-Fos-115/1; inclusion in Burmese amber from Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar; purchased by the author on eBay from Terry Su, eBay username “burmite-miner”, and deposited in the author’s collection.

Syninclusions. Four mites, large aggregations of fungal hyphae and some spores, stellate plant hairs, plant detritus and many air bubbles.