Nesothrips, Kirkaldy (Mound & Palmer, 1983

Eow, L. X., Mound, L. A. & Ng, Y. F., 2011, Genera of Spore-Feeding Thysanoptera from Southeast Asia (Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae), with a species checklist from Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 2928 (1), pp. 1-19 : 13

Nesothrips

This genus of 28 species is particularly well represented in Australia and the Pacific islands. One species, N. yasumatsui Okajima , is described from Thailand, but three species have been distributed through human trading widely around the world, including various Southeast Asian countries. These are, N. lativentris Karny , apparently associated with dead fronds and fruits of coconut palm trees, N. propinquus Bagnall , associated with dead grasses and hay, and N. brevicollis Bagnall , associated with dead twigs. N. propinquus Bagnall often has the compound eyes prolonged ventrally, but this character is variable and eyes may be scarcely prolonged at all ( Mound, 1974). Members of this genus usually have a pair of strong setae arising between the posterior ocelli.