Mound Laurence A, Dahiya Nisha, Yerbanga Rakiswende S
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO Box 1700, ACT 2601, Australia.; Email:
Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, 01 BP545 Bobo Dioulasso 01, Burkina Faso; Email: unknown.
Zootaxa. 2014 May 30(3811):146-8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.1.10.
Widespread and common across much of the drier areas of western Africa, the woody shrub Guiera senegalensis (Combretaceae) is the sole member of its genus. Similarly widespread is Vuilletia houardi, a thrips species that induces galls on this shrub, and is recorded from Mali, Senegal, Gambia and northern Nigeria (Pitkin & Mound 1973). Moreover, large numbers of galls, together with their included thrips, have now been studied from Burkina Faso. Some galls (Figs 1, 2) are invaded by Senegathrips coutini, a species whose biology is not known but that is possibly a predator. Moreover, Liothrips africana also sometimes breeds within these galls, but is possibly using these only as a convenient shelter. A re-description and line-drawings of V. houardi was provided by zur Strassen (1958), but no modern diagnosis of this genus, nor of Senegathrips, is available, the objective here being to provide formal diagnoses for these two monotypic genera.
木质灌木塞内加尔几内亚藤（使君子科）在西非大部分较为干旱的地区广泛分布且很常见，是其所在属的唯一成员。同样广泛分布的还有霍氏管蓟马，这是一种能在这种灌木上形成虫瘿的蓟马物种，在马里、塞内加尔、冈比亚和尼日利亚北部均有记录（皮特金和芒德，1973年）。此外，现在已经对来自布基纳法索的大量虫瘿及其内部的蓟马进行了研究。一些虫瘿（图1、2）被库氏塞内加尔蓟马侵入，该物种的生物学特性尚不清楚，但可能是一种捕食者。此外，非洲管蓟马有时也在这些虫瘿内繁殖，但可能只是把它们当作便利的庇护所。祖尔·施特拉森（1958年）对霍氏管蓟马进行了重新描述并绘制了线条图，但目前没有关于该属以及塞内加尔蓟马属的现代诊断，本文的目的是为这两个单型属提供正式诊断。
