Monothrips flavus Moulton

Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, Zootaxa 3064 (1), pp. 1-40 : 28

Monothrips flavus Moulton

(Figs 75, 78–79)

Monothrips flavus Moulton, 1940: 246

This species was described from one female, collected from Saccharum at Rabaul, New Britain, and a second female was subsequently recorded from Australia, just south of Darwin ( Mound, 2002). It is very similar in structure and colour to M. cuspis described above, apart from the form of the tergal and sternal craspeda ( Figs 78, 79 ). The fore ocellus is usually much smaller than the other two ocelli, and ocellar setae III are about as long as the side of the triangle (Fig. 75).

Material studied. Western Australia; Broome, Willie Creek, 3 females from Chrysopogon pallidus ; Cable Beach, 5 females from Stipa sp. Northern Territory, Humpty Doo, 1 female from grass, 15.v.1999. Queensland, Badu Island, 2 females from Chrysopogon phallax lvs, 18.xi.2009; Tully, 1 female from grasses, 25.vii.1968.

Figures

FIGURES 76 – 85. Grass living Thripinae. Monothrips cuspis 76 – 77: (76) sternites V – VII; (77) tergites VI – VIII. Monothrips flavus 78 – 79: (78) sternites V – VII; (79) tergites VI – VIII. (80) Stenchaetothrips bambusicola, head & thorax. Stenchaetothrips biformis 81 – 83: (81) antenna; (82) tergites VI – VIII; (83) head. Sten. bambusicola 84 - 85: (84) female sternites V-VII; (85) tergites VI – VIII.