Sophiothrips aleurodisci Mound & Walker, 1982

This uniformly brown species is known only from New Zealand, where it is widespread in native forest in both North and South Islands. Large males have a tubercle ventrally on the head, and often have a small tubercle dorsally on tergite IX. This thrips has been taken from dead branches in association with a small pink coral-spot fungus of the genus Aleurodiscus .