Hoplothrips corticis (De Geer)

(Figs 3, 32, 47, 57)

Thrips corticis De Geer, 1773: 11 . Female macroptera. Body and femora brown; tibiae yellow shaded brown, tarsi yellow; antennal segment III mainly yellow, IV–VI variably yellow at base but not sharply bicoloured; fore wings weakly shaded toward apex. Head longer than wide, genae with several small, slender setae; postocular setae very long and pointed, wide apart; maxillary stylets retracted to eyes, close together medially (Fig. 3). Antennal segment III with 3 short, straight sense cones, IV with 4 sense cones (Fig. 32); VIII constricted to base. Pronotum without sculpture medially, with 4 pairs of very long, slender pointed major setae, am scarcely larger than discal setae (Fig. 3); prosternal basantra absent. Fore tarsal tooth large. Metanotum without sculpture medially (Fig. 47). Fore wing with about 10 duplicated cilia. Pelta with lateral margins confluent with anterior margin of tergite II (Fig. 47); tergites II–VII with two pairs of sigmoid wing-retaining setae; tergite IX setae S1 pointed, at least 0.8 as long as tube.

Female microptera. Wings shorter than thorax width; antennal segment III sometimes with 2 sense cones; genae swollen behind small forwardly directed eyes. Male microptera. Large males with fore femora swollen; tergite IX setae S2 short and stout; sternite VIII with large pore plate that scarcely extends posterior to spiracles (Fig. 57), median longitudinal length of pore plate 50–60 microns.

Specimens studied. Queensland, Bunya Mts, 9.iv.1993, 2 female micropterae from Araucaria bidwilli litter; Norfolk Island, Selwyn Pine Road, 6 female macropterae, 3 female micropterae, 1 male microptera, from dead branches, 26.xii.2012 .

Comments. Described from Europe where it is widespread (Mound et al. 2018), this species is known also from eastern North America and New Zealand (Mound & Walker 1986). In Australia, it has been reported from Norfolk Island (Mound & Wells 2015) and is here recorded from southeastern Queensland.