Karphothrips Mound & Walker

(Fig. 46)

Only one species is known in this genus. Described originally from a single female found in New Zealand, both sexes and larvae of K. dugdalei have been taken from the leaves of the common sword grass, Gahnia, at various sites across southern Australia, between Tasmania and Albany in Western Australia (Mound, 2002). This is a slender, yellow species, with a long head superficially similar to Aptinothrips species, but with slender wings that lack a discal seta on the clavus, and prosternal basantra that bear one or two pairs of setae. The tergal campaniform sensilla are close to the posterior margin, as in Bregmatothrips, but no craspeda are developed (Fig. 46), antennal segment I lacks dorso-apical setae, tergite IX of females has very short median dorsal setae, and the males have a single round pore plate medially on the third sternite.