Carientothrips reedi Mound, 1974 a: 34

Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), Zootaxa 3821 (2), pp. 193-221 : 208-209

Carientothrips reedi Mound, 1974 a: 34

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This species is known from eastern New South Wales and Southeastern Queensland. It is very similar to vesper from western Australia, but has shorter antennae ( Fig. 25 , cf. Fig. 26 ) and the major setae are less capitate. The available specimens were taken from grasses and dead twigs.

Diagnosis. Apterous or macropterous, body and legs brownish yellow with tube dark; head longer than wide, not projecting in front of eyes, vertex reticulate; eyes well developed dorsally but small ventrally with only 4–5 visible ommatidia; postocellar finely acute, postocular setae weakly capitate. Pronotal am setae short and acute, the other 4 pairs long and capitate, aa setae arising slightly mesad of anterior angle; notopleural sutures incomplete. Metanotum reticulate, with 4–6 minor setae anteromedially. Pelta broadly triangular with rounded margins (also macroptera); tergites III–VI with about 10 small discal setae in transverse row, wing-retaining setae minute in aptera, sigmoid in macroptera; tergite IX setae blunt and shorter than tube. Male with no fore tarsal tooth.

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.