Nesothrips carveri 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 : 217

Nesothrips carveri Mound, 1974 a: 71

( Figs 53 , 61 )

This species has been found commonly on dead branches of Eucalyptus trees around Canberra, and has also been taken around Adelaide and in Victoria. It is an extensively brown species, with only the slender base of the third antennal segment paler ( Fig. 61 ).

Diagnosis. Macropterous or micropterous, body, legs and antennae dark brown with base of antennal segment III yellow; head wider than long, maxillary stylets widely spaced, V-shaped, not retracted to postocular setae ( Fig. 53 ); postocellar setae acute arising on or near tangent to posterior margin of hind ocelli; postocular setae long and pointed; maxillary palp segment I as long as wide; pronotum with 5 pairs of major setae, am and aa smaller than the other setae ( Fig. 53 ); metanotum with no sculpture, median setae long and acute; metathoracic sternopleural sutures absent; pelta with large median lobe and broad lateral wings; tergites III–VII with wing-retaining setae weakly sigmoid (almost straight in micropterae), discal area with one pair of small setae medially and one pair laterally; tergite IX setal pair S3 as long as tube, S1 and S2 no more than 0.6 as long as tube. Male microptera pronotum with stout median apodeme, fore femora swollen, 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.

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.