Fungus-feeding thrips of the genus Stephanothrips in Australia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) Mound, Laurence A. Tree, Desley J. Zootaxa 2018 2018-06-29 4442 1 181 186 52CV6 Mound Mound [151,529,1182,1208] Insecta Phlaeothripidae Stephanothrips GBIF Animalia Thysanoptera 1 182 Arthropoda species barretti  Described from a single female ( Mound 1972: 100), this wingless species has been found widely in eastern Australia, although only four males have been seen. The collecting localities range from various sites in Tasmaniaincluding Flinders Island, southern Victoria, eastern New South Walesincluding the Canberra area, and southeastern Queensland, also Lord Howe Island and  NorfolkIsland. The species has generally been collected only one specimen at a time, and particularly on dead branches, and most individuals bear a large number of fungal spores and fragments of mycelia on their surface. The brown to dark brown body and rectangular head, are distinctive amongst the Australian thrips fauna ( Fig. 5), although antennal segment III is variably paler in the basal third ( Fig. 6). The anterior margins of the prosternal ferna are weakly sclerotized, but the meso and metasternal furcae are well developed ( Fig. 9). In appearance,  barrettiis similar to formosanusfrom Taiwanand Japan, but has tergite I clearly distinct from the metanotum ( Fig. 11).