Scolothrips ochoa Mound, Tree & Goldarazena, 2010: 64

This highly characteristic Australian species with compact antennal segments is presumably host-specific on Raoiella, a genus of mites in the family Tenuipalpidae . It is the only member of Scolothrips known to be a predator of mites that are not members of the Tetranychidae . The metanotal sculpture (Fig. 1) is similar to that of asura, and different from other members of the genus. The pronotal chaetotaxy is variable, because the holotype has a single small seta on the right hand side just in front of the posterior margin; one paratype has a pair of such setae (Fig. 1); the other paratypes have no setae in this position. It is not clear if these setae are homologous with the pronotal discal setae of the sexmaculatus species-group.