Nesothrips lativentris (Karny, 1913: 129)

Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), Zootaxa 3821 (2), pp. 193-221 : 218

Nesothrips lativentris (Karny, 1913: 129)

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Described originally from Taiwan, this species is widespread across the tropics from the Pacific islands including Fiji to the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. It is known in Australia from Darwin in the Northern Territories, from Queensland around Brisbane and Cairns, and also from Lord Howe Island and Christmas Island.

Diagnosis. Macropterous or micropterous, body and legs dark brown, tarsi paler, antennal segment III largely yellow, also basal half of IV–V; head longer than wide, postocellar setae longer than distance between their bases, arising on tangent between posterior margins of hind ocelli ( Fig. 47 ); postocular setae long and acute; maxillary palp segment I as long as wide; pronotum with 5 pairs of major setae, am and aa small; metathoracic sternopleural sutures long and curved; metanotum weakly sculptured, with one pair of anteromedian discal setae; pelta with large median lobe and broadly joined lateral lobes; tergites II–VII with transverse row of 10–20 minute discal setae, wing-retaining setae only weakly sigmoid in micropterae; tergite IX setae about 0.8 as long as tube. Large male with strong longitudinal pronotal apodeme, fore femora L-shaped, fore tarsal tooth large.

Figures

FIGURES 47–55. Nesothrips species. Head: (47) lativentris, (48) badius, (49) barrowi, (50) coorongi, (51) propinquus, (52) minor major male, (53) carveri, (54) brigalowi, (55) rossi.