Nesothrips hemidiscus 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 : 217-218

Nesothrips hemidiscus Mound, 1974 a: 71

( Fig. 66 )

This species remains known from the original series of 8 females and 2 males taken at Mareeba in northern Queensland from dead Casuarina branches. The D-shaped pelta of this thrips is unique in Nesothrips .

Diagnosis. Macropterous; body, legs and antennae dark brown, pedicel of antennal segment III yellow; head slightly wider than long, postocellar setae small and arising behind ocelli, postocular setae long and dark; pronotum strongly transverse, with 5 pairs of major setae, aa close to ml setae; metanotal median setae long and stout; pelta D-shaped with no lateral lobes ( Fig. 66 ); tergites II–VII with one pair of sigmoid wing-retaining setae, discal area with one pair of small setae medially and one pair laterally; tergite IX setae S1 short, no longer than basal width of tube, S2 and S3 more than 0.5 as long as tube.

Figures

FIGURES 62–68. Nesothrips species. Thoracic features and pelta: (62) coorongi, (63) rossi, (64) brigalowi, (65) barrowi. Pelta: (66) hemidiscus. Pronotum: (67) capricornis. Maxillary palps and mesopresternum: (68) propinquus.