taxonID	type	description	language	source
03F72349FFA5FFC6FF7C124CFCE217E4.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 brown and tube dark; all setae pale. Legs all yellow except basal half of fore femora brown. All body surfaces lacking obvious sculpture lines. Antennae 8 - segmented, VIII long and slender, III & IV each with 2 sense cones. Head longer than wide, with paired postocular setae arising laterally near cheeks; maxillary stylets wide apart, low in head with weak bridge. Metathoracic sternopleural sutures long, reaching or surpassing half of the sclerite. Tergites III – VII each with one pair of weakly sigmoid setae; tergite IX setae S 1 acute and shorter than tube. Tube shorter than head, anal setae much longer than tube. Male microptera. Similar to female but fore tarsal tooth larger; fore wing lobe minute; metathoracic sternopleural sutures not clearly developed; sternite VIII without pore plate; tergite IX setae S 2 shorter and stouter than S 1; aedeagus slender. Specimens studied. Holotype female (distal half of fore wings lost) Australian Capital Territory, Black Mt., at base of Dianella leaves, 26. ii. 2011 (LAM 5425), in Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra. Paratypes: Two female micropterae, three male micropterae, collected with holotype; one female microptera, three male micropterae from same group of plants as holotype, 1. iii. 2011.	en	Mound, Laurence A. (2026): Praepodothrips dianellae sp. nov. (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae): validation of this name. Zootaxa 5839 (1): 200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5839.1.12, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5839.1.12
