Teuchothrips simplicipennis Hood

(Figs 96–101)

Teuchothrips simplicipennis Hood, 1919: 86 .

Mesothrips insolens Bagnall, 1924: 638 .

Described originally as the type-species of Teuchothrips, a genus for which Hood described two further new species as well as adding a further six species he had previously described from Australia. He described simplicipennis from two females taken at Brooklyn [just north of Sydney], New South Wales, in November, 1914. These specimens were restudied in 1998 and compared with syntypes of insolens that Bagnall had described from Victoria (Mound 2008), as well as with the macropterae and micropterae listed below from Aldinga, South Australia. Larger males have a distinct tubercle on the inner apex of the fore tibiae that is not present in the smaller males, and sternite VIII has a broad, transverse pore plate (Fig. 100). In both sexes, the basal half of the fore wing is light brown, and the sub-basal setae are rather short and arise in a straight line.

Specimens studied. Australia, Victoria, Healesville, Syntypes of insolens, 4 females, 1 male from Leptospermum myrsinoides, 1917, in ANIC . Victoria, Nelson, 3 females, 3 males from Melaleuca leaves, 5.x.2013; Bendigo, 1 female from Cassinia arcuata, i.2014 . South Australia, Aldinga, Kursa Road, 3 females from Leptospermum myrsinoides, 3.xii.1967; Renmark 14km north, 2 females, 1 male from Melaleuca lanceolata, 30.x.1967; Coonalpyn, 2 females, 1 male from Melaleuca lanceolata, 3.xi.1967; Adelaide, Crafers, 2 females, 3 males from Kunzea ericoides, iv.2005 . Australian Capital Territory, Mulligans Flat, 2 females, 1 male from dead branch, 6.xiii.2003, in ANIC .