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(
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. Body and legs brown, fore tibiae paler distally, all tarsi yellowish; antennal segment II yellow distally, III yellow with apex faintly shaded, IV light brown in apical third, V–VI brown in apical half, VII–VIII and I–II brown (
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); fore wings weakly shaded with margins slightly darker but clavus and area around sub-basal setae brown; major setae weakly shaded. Head longer than wide (
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), genae narrowed to basal neck with several stout setae; vertex with faint transverse sculpture lines; postocular setae long and acute; maxillary stylets retracted to postocular setae and close together medially; maxillary bridge present.Antennal segment III with one sense cone, IV with 3, V and VI each with 2 sense cones; segment VIII small and broad at base. Pronotum with irregular, transverse reticulation but smooth medially; five pairs of well-developed setae, major setae bluntly pointed to weakly capitate; notopleural sutures complete. Mesonotal lateral setae small and blunt; metanotal median setae small and acute; metanotum weakly and variably reticulate. Prosternal basantra absent; ferna large and close together medially; mesopresternum transverse and fully developed; metathoracic sternopleural sutures well developed. Fore tarsus with long pointed tooth at least half as long as tarsal width; fore tibia inner apex with slightly curved and pointed tubercle (
<figureCitation id="1309A2E4B73AFFCFFE9FFD2F1906F6F7" box="[257,326,691,718]" captionStart="FIGURES 1‒12" captionStartId="2.[151,264,1909,1933]" captionTargetBox="[164,1423,181,1884]" captionTargetId="figure-23@2.[164,1423,181,1884]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1‒12. Australian Phlaeothripinae. Litotetothrips symplocosae sp.n. 1‒3: (1) Head &amp; pronotum; (2) Metanotum &amp; pelta; (3) Antennal segments II‒VIII. Ponticulothrips mudloi sp.n. 4‒7 (male): (4) Antennal segments II‒VIII; (5) Fore tarsus; (6) Head; (7) Pelta. Trichinothrips breviceps 8‒9: (8) Antenna; (9) Head &amp; thorax. Tylothrips osborni 10‒12: (10) Head; (11) Metathoracic ventro-lateral seta; (12) Pronotum." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6280990" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6280990/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="294">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
). Fore wing sub-basal setae rather short; 24–26 duplicated cilia present. Pelta bell-shaped (
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), with paired campaniform sensilla, slightly recessed into anterior margin of tergite II; tergites II–VI each with two pairs of sigmoid wing-retaining setae, VII with these setae straight or weak; tergite IX setae S1 long and pointed, setae S2 short and stout; tube with straight sides, anal setae shorter than tube; sternite VIII without pore plate.
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<emphasis id="B9466273B73AFFCFFF59FCDF1936F764" bold="true" box="[199,374,835,861]" pageId="3" pageNumber="294">Measurements</emphasis>
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male in microns). Body length 3500. Head, length 300; width behind eyes 235; po setae 100. Pronotum, length 200; width 370; major setae – am 40, aa 55, ml 55, epim 115, pa 60. Fore wing, length 1350, width 105; sub-basal setae 60, 75, 50. Mesonotal lateral setae 50; metanotal median setae 35. Tergite IX setae 210, 50. Tube length 271. Antennal segments III–VIII length 110, 95, 90, 80, 65, 35.
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<emphasis id="B9466273B73AFFCFFF59FC4F19E3F7D4" box="[199,419,979,1005]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="294">Female macroptera</emphasis>
. Similar in colour and structure to the male, but with setae S2 on tergite IX about two-thirds as long as S1, and the fore tarsal tooth scarcely one-third as long as the width of the tarsus.
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. 
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, 
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<emphasis id="B9466273B73AFFCFFF59FB1B1908F098" bold="true" box="[199,328,1159,1185]" pageId="3" pageNumber="294">Comments</emphasis>
. The genus 
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Haga &amp; Okajima
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is closely similar to the widespread genus 
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, from which it differs in having one or more pairs of stout setae laterally on the head. The genus has been known only from a single species, 
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<emphasis id="B9466273B73AFFCFFE0DFB531A47F0D0" box="[403,519,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="294">diospyrosi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, collected in southern 
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(
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). Moreover, 
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records this species from Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, where it is considered a pest on the leaves of persimmon trees, 
<taxonomicName id="4C32C5E2B73AFFCFFF45FA8419C4F108" box="[219,388,1303,1329]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ebenaceae" genus="Diospyros" kingdom="Plantae" order="Ericales" pageId="3" pageNumber="294" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="kaki">
<emphasis id="B9466273B73AFFCFFF45FA8419C4F108" box="[219,388,1303,1329]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="294">Diospyros kaki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The host plant of this new species remains unknown, being based on 
<specimenCount id="9D3475E8B73AFFCFFB3DFA8B1D18F108" box="[1187,1368,1303,1329]" pageId="3" pageNumber="294" type="generic">eight specimens</specimenCount>
taken from an unknown tree through the use of insecticide spraying. However, the Australian Ebony, 
<taxonomicName id="4C32C5E2B73AFFCFFB57FAA01DD5F16C" box="[1225,1429,1339,1365]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ebenaceae" genus="Diospyros" kingdom="Plantae" order="Ericales" pageId="3" pageNumber="294" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="humilis">
<emphasis id="B9466273B73AFFCFFB57FAA01DD5F16C" box="[1225,1429,1339,1365]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="294">Diospyros humilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, is widespread in eastern Queensland, where other species of this plant genus also grow. Females of the new species described here are remarkably similar to the description of 
<emphasis id="B9466273B73AFFCFFCCCFA1F1BF8F1A4" box="[850,952,1411,1437]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="294">dispyrosi</emphasis>
(also images kindly supplied by Masami Masumoto). However, three of the four available males clearly differ in having a stout hook-like tubercle at the inner apex of each fore tibia; this is lacking in the fourth and smallest male that is therefore not listed above as a 
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. In both sexes, the pair of wing-retaining setae on tergite VII are usually absent, reduced or straight.
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