Carientothrips casuarinae Mound, 1974 a: 26

Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), Zootaxa 3821 (2), pp. 193-221 : 200

Carientothrips casuarinae Mound, 1974 a: 26

This appears to be a particularly dark and robust form of the species mentioned above under acti . It has been taken several times in association with dead Casuarina branches mainly in eastern New South Wales, but also in Tasmania.

Diagnosis. Dark brown, pedicel of antennal segment III paler, major setae pale; apterous and macropterous; head scarcely 1.3 as long as wide, eyes smaller ventrally than dorsally, postocellar setae well-developed, postocular setae shorter than width of an eye; maxillary palp segment I twice as long as wide, segment II 1.5 times as long as I. Pronotal notopleural sutures complete, am setae as long as aa setae. Pelta very broadly triangular, tube shorter than head. Male with small fore tarsal tooth.