Carientothrips pedicillus Mound, 1974 a: 32

Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), Zootaxa 3821 (2), pp. 193-221 : 208

Carientothrips pedicillus Mound, 1974 a: 32

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Known only from a single female taken near Canberra, this species appears to be related to mjobergi , but has stout postocellar setae and the antennal segments VI & VII are remarkably short and rounded with the pedicel distinctly constricted ( Fig. 28 ).

Diagnosis. Apterous, bicoloured with head and thorax paler than dark brown abdomen; head as wide as long, weakly projecting in front of eyes, eyes with one ommatidium displaced to posterior on ventral surface, postocellar setae blunt to very weakly capitate and as long as width of antennal segment III; pronotal am setae minute, notopleural sutures complete; metanotum without sculpture medially; pelta broad, lateral lobes broadly joined to median area, tube shorter than head.

Figures

FIGURES 21–30. Carientothrips species. Tergites VIII–X (tube): (21) snowi. Tergites IX–X (tube): (22) miskoi female, (23) calami. Antenna segments III–VIII: (24) horni, (25) reedi, (26) vesper, (27) magnetis, (28) pedicillus. Antennal segments III–IV: (29) acti, (30) pictilis.