Raoiella bauchani
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Fig. 1. Raoiella bauchani adult female dorsum. |
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Fig. 2. Raoiella bauchani adult female dorsum. |
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Fig. 3. Raoiella bauchani adult female central dorsum. |
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Fig. 4. Raoiella bauchani adult female, posterior dorsum. |
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Fig. 5. Raoiella bauchani adult female leg I (d = dorsal seta on tibia I, s = solenidion, cs = companion seta). |
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Fig. 6. Raoiella bauchani adult female leg II (d = dorsal seta on tibia II, s = solenidion, cs = companion seta). |
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Fig. 7. Raoiella bauchani adult female palps (s = solenidion, e = eupathidium). |
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Fig. 8. Raoiella bauchani adult male palps (s = solenidion, e = eupathidium). |
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Fig. 9. Raoiella bauchani adult female gnathosoma indicating distinctly elongate palp (arrows). |
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Fig. 10. Raoiella bauchani adult female posterior venter (genital region). |
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Fig. 11. Raoiella bauchani adult male, posterior venter, indicating elongate setae ps1. |
Authority
Beard and Ochoa
Key characters
- setae c1 weakly spatulate; setae d1 with broad blunt tip; setae e1 minute, blunt (Figs. 1, 2, 3)
- setae c1 > d1 > e1 in length (Fig. 3)
- seta h1 longer than h2 (Fig. 4)
- seta h2 spatulate (Fig. 4)
- seta f2 more or less subequal in length to f3, or marginally shorter than f3 (Fig. 4)
- coxae III-IV nude
- femur II with 4 setae (d, l', bv", v')
- genua I-II with 2 setae (d, l' present; l" absent)
- tarsi I-II with companion seta obviously shorter than solenidion (Figs. 5, 6)
- dorsal seta on tibiae I-II setiform with tapered tip (but not finely tapered) (Figs. 5, 6)
- palp tibiotarsus with one solenidion and one blunt eupathidium distally (Figs. 7, 8), and one seta dorsally
- palps distinctly elongate (Figs. 8, 9)
- setae ps1 and ps2 inserted adjacent to each other (Fig. 10)
- male with long ps1 setae, 19-22 microns (Fig. 11)
- male femur II and genua I-II same as female
- larva unknown
Similar species
Raoiella bauchani is similar morphologically to Raoiella goyderi.
Raoiella bauchani: opisthosomal setae f2 subequal in length with f3.
Raoiella goyderi: opisthosomal setae f2 shorter than f3.
Distribution
Australia (QLD)
Hosts
Swamp Box, Lophostemon suaveolens (Myrtaceae)
Remarks
This species is placed in the bauchani species group proposed by Beard et al. (2018).
Listed as Raoiella australica in Dowling et al. (2012); listed as undescribed species of Raoiella in Ochoa et al. (2011); listed as Raoiella nr australica in Beard et al. (2012).
A new predatory thrips, Scolothrips ochoa, was found feeding on this species, and was described by Mound et al. (2010).
References
Beard et al. (2012); Beard et al. (2018); Dowling et al. (2012); Mound et al. (2010); Ochoa et al. (2011)
