Leeuwenia tetrastigmae Mound, 2004

The host plant of this thrips, Tetrastigma nitens [ Vitaceae], is widespread in rainforest areas of the Australian East coast from Sydney northwards. However, populations of the thrips and the distorted leaf-galls it induces have a patchy distribution. Adults are smaller than those of convergens, with the head and the tube shorter, and the legs uniformly yellow.