Hoplothrips fungosus Moulton

(Figs 4, 5, 6, 24)

Hoplothrips fungosus Moulton, 1928: 305 .

Described from Taiwan, this species has been recorded from India and southern Japan and is probably widespread in East Asia (Okajima 2006). It is here recorded from Australia in Northern Territory and also eastern Queensland. Okajima (2006) stated that this species “could well be placed in a different genus” because of the following character states: prosternal basantra present (Fig. 24), female fore tarsal tooth absent, fore wings lacking duplicated cilia, male pore plate absent. However, prosternal basantra are present in the males of two new species described here from Australia, although these sclerites are not developed in females of one of these species, and the male of the other species has a transverse pore plate.

Specimens studied. Australia, Northern Territory, Litchfield NP, 12 males, 11 females, 3 female macropterae from dead Melaleuca wood, 3.v.2014 ; Darwin, East Point, 1 female, 1 male from dead wood, 5.v.2014 ; Kuranda, 1 female from dead leaves, 5.xi.2008; Brisbane, Brookfield, 2 females, 1 female macroptera from barkspray, 22.i.2011. [All apterae except where stated.]