Xylaplothrips collyerae (Mound &Walker) comb.n.

Haplothrips collyerae Mound & Walker, 1986: 40

Described from New Zealand, the larvae of this species have been recorded in Tasmania as predatory on the European thrips, Sericothrips staphylinus, a species that is useful in the biological control of the weedy shrub, Ulex europea (Mound & Minaei 2007) . As with acaciae discussed above, and gahniae below, the presence on antennal segments III and IV of only two major sense cones suggests that these species are probably unrelated to the many species of genus Haplothrips .