Pseudanaphothrips achaetus (Bagnall)

Mound, Laurence A., Matsunaga, Janis N., Bushe, Brian, Hoddle, Mark S. & Wells, Alice, 2017, Adventive Thysanoptera Species in the Hawaiian Islands: New Records and Putative Host Associations, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 49, pp. 17-28 : 21

Pseudanaphothrips achaetus (Bagnall) .

Both sexes of this highly polyphagous Australian flower thrips were found on Maui, Haleakala National Park, in the flowers of the native plant Geranium cuneatum [ Geraniaceae ] and the flowers of an introduced Oenothera stricta [ Onagraceae ]. It is distinguished from the other members of this predominantly Australian genus by the absence of any long setae on the pronotum. In the key to Thripinae genera in Mound et al. (2016) this species will run to Anaphothrips , but in contrast to members of that genus the forewing in Pseudanaphothrips species resembles that of species of Frankliniella in having both longitudinal veins with a complete row of setae.