taxonID	type	description	language	source
03877E5D193CFFCFE7B6FC2AEB843E43.taxon	description	Female macroptera (distal half of wings lost on holotype). Body bicoloured; head, prothorax and most of meso and metathorax brown, abdomen yellow but segment IX light baron and tube dark; all setae pale. Legs all yellow except basal half of fore femora brown. Fore wing light brown medially. Antennal segments I and IV – VIII light brown, III yellow also most of segment II. All body surfaces almost smooth, lacking obvious sculpture lines. Antennae 8 - segmented, VIII long and slender (Fig. 6), III & IV each with 2 sense cones. Head longer than wide, with paired postocular setae arising laterally near cheeks (Fig. 1); maxillary stylets wide apart, low in head with weak bridge (Fig. 2). Pronotum with posteroangular and epimeral setae long and capitate, the other three pairs of major setae all small; notopleural sutures complete (Fig. 12). Metanotum smooth, median setae small, acute, wide apart (Fig. 7). Fore tarsal tooth present but small (Fig. 3), fore tibiae unarmed. Prosternal basantra wider than long; mesopresternum slender submedially (Fig. 14); metathoracic sternopleural sutures long (Fig. 13), furcal arms weak and wide apart without spinula. Fore wing sub-basal setae S 1 & S 2 capitate S 3 pointed. Pelta almost D-shaped with posterolateral wings small (Fig. 7); tergites III – VII each with one pair of weakly sigmoid setae, anterior pair reduced in size on each tergite, tergite II with both setae reduced; tergite IX setae S 1 acute and shorter than tube (Fig. 8). Tube shorter than head, anal setae much longer than tube. Measurements. Female holotype (de-alate): Body length 1800. Head, length 175; maximum width 150; po setae 30. Pronotum, length 135; width 200; posteroangular seta 28; epimeral seta 40. Tergite IX setae S 1 75; S 2 125. Tube length 100; anal setae 150. Female microptera. Similar to macroptera in colour and structure; head with ocelli smaller; fore wing lobe shorter than thorax width; metathoracic sternopleural sutures sometimes partially occluded; pelta variable, sometimes almost bell-shaped; tergal sigmoid setae often weak, anterior pair very small (Fig. 15). Male microptera. Similar to female but sometimes paler with antennae almost uniformly yellow; fore tarsal tooth larger, often much larger (Figs 4, 5); fore wing lobe minute, no more than 50 microns long; pelta with small posterolateral lobes (Fig. 9; metathoracic sternopleural sutures not clearly developed; sternite VIII without pore plate; tergite IX setae S 2 shorter and stouter than S 1 (Fig. 10); aedeagus slender (Fig. 11).	en	Mound, Laurence A. (2026): The Asian genus Praepodothrips newly recorded in Australia with one new species and comments on the Haplothripini (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae). Zootaxa 5802 (2): 390-394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5802.2.11, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5802.2.11
