Nesothrips aoristus Mound, 1974 a: 68

Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), Zootaxa 3821 (2), pp. 193-221 : 214

Nesothrips aoristus Mound, 1974 a: 68

This species remains known only from the original series of three females and two males that were collected in South Australia, south of Adelaide. The head bears a pair of prominent postocellar setae that are similar in position and size to those of lativentris , the major setae on the pronotum are unusually stout as are the median setae on the metanotum .

Diagnosis. Micropterous with very short fore wing lobe; body, legs and antennae dark brown, pedicel of antennal segment III yellow; head slightly longer than wide, postocellar and postocular setae long and dark; pronotum with 5 pairs of long, stout dark setae; metanotal median setae long and stout; pelta with large median lobe and slender lateral wings; tergites III–VII with one pair of weakly sigmoid wing-retaining setae, discal area with one pair of small setae medially and one pair laterally; tergite IX with the ventro-lateral pair of setae, S3, unusually short and stout. Male smaller than female, large male with L-shaped fore femora and large fore tarsal tooth; tergite IX setae S3 longer than S2.