Nesothrips yanchepi Mound, 1974 a: 71

Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), Zootaxa 3821 (2), pp. 193-221 : 220

Nesothrips yanchepi Mound, 1974 a: 71

( Fig. 58 )

This species remains known only from the original series of two females and one male taken from sedges in Western Australia just north of Perth. It is similar to carveri and minor , but with the third antennal segment less slender at the base and extensively yellow ( Fig. 58 ). The single male paratype has enlarged fore femora and large fore tarsal tooth .

Diagnosis. Micropterous, body and legs dark brown, hind femora and hind tibiae yellow only at extreme apices, tarsi yellow; head as long as wide, postocellar setae acute and arising on tangent between posterior margins of hind ocelli; postocular setae long and acute; pronotal am and aa setae small and acute, ml, epim and pa welldeveloped; metanotum with equiangular reticulation laterally but smooth medially; pelta with large median lobe and broadly joined lateral lobes; tergites II–VII with wing-retaining setae very long and straight, discal area with one pair of small setae medially; tergite IX setae about 0.6 as long as tube.

Figures

FIGURES 56–61. Nesothrips species. Maxillary palps: (56) badius. Eye ventral surface: (57) propinquus. Antennal segments III–VIII: (58) yanchepi, (59) badius, (60) barrowi. Antennal segments II–VIII: (61) carveri.