Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae) Author Eow, Li-Xin Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences School, Science & Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia. E-mail: eowlixin @ gmail. com, sl. cameron @ qut. edu. au & CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601. E-mail: laurence. mound @ csiro. au & Queensland Primary Industries Insect Collection (QDPC), GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Qld, 4001. E-mail: desley. tree @ daff. qld. gov. au text Zootaxa 2014 2014-06-20 3821 2 193 221 journal article 5348 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.2 e03ba3fc-13a1-4096-b515-a772de4ec84e 1175-5326 4919972 C93F0714-35E6-46BE-8754-D5B17C4F7FF5 Carientothrips casuarinae Mound, 1974 a: 26 This appears to be a particularly dark and robust form of the species mentioned above under acti . It has been taken several times in association with dead Casuarina branches mainly in eastern New South Wales , but also in Tasmania . Diagnosis. Dark brown, pedicel of antennal segment III paler, major setae pale; apterous and macropterous; head scarcely 1.3 as long as wide, eyes smaller ventrally than dorsally, postocellar setae well-developed, postocular setae shorter than width of an eye; maxillary palp segment I twice as long as wide, segment II 1.5 times as long as I. Pronotal notopleural sutures complete, am setae as long as aa setae. Pelta very broadly triangular, tube shorter than head. Male with small fore tarsal tooth.