Katothrips hoarei Crespi, Morris and Mound

Mound, Laurence A. & Wells, Alice, 2020, Host-shifts at family level in the Australian Acacia-thrips lineage (Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae) with two new species, Zootaxa 4816 (2), pp. 202-208 : 205-206

Katothrips hoarei Crespi, Morris and Mound

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Katothrips hoarei Crespi, Morris and Mound, 2004: 212 .

Based on two females taken in southeastern Australia from a lepidopterous leaf-mine on Banksia serrata , four fur- ther females have been collected more recently from leaf-mines on Banksia integrifolia . The species is unusual in having all five pairs of pronotal major setae fully developed, a condition amongst Katothrips species that is known only in K. echinatus and the new species described below. Moreover, hoarei is unique in the genus in having two sense cones on the third antennal segment (Fig. 13), not just a single one. The body colour of mature specimens is remarkable, being essentially yellow with pairs of dark brown spots laterally on tergites III–VIII (Fig. 15), also laterally on the meso and metathorax and sub-medially on the pronotum (Fig. 14); the mid tibiae are brown at the base, and the hind femora brown at the apex.

Material examined. Holotype and paratype female macropterae, AUSTRALIA, Victoria, Croajingolong NP, from lepidopterous leaf mine on Banksia serrata , 31.viii.1995 ( R. Hoare). Victoria, Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 4 females from leaf mines on Banksia integrifolia , iv.2012 (L. Semeraro).