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 Nesothrips hemidiscus Mound, 1974 a: 71 ( Fig. 66 ) This species remains known from the original series of 8 females and 2 males taken at Mareeba in northern Queensland from dead Casuarina branches. The D-shaped pelta of this thrips is unique in Nesothrips . Diagnosis. Macropterous; body, legs and antennae dark brown, pedicel of antennal segment III yellow; head slightly wider than long, postocellar setae small and arising behind ocelli, postocular setae long and dark; pronotum strongly transverse, with 5 pairs of major setae, aa close to ml setae; metanotal median setae long and stout; pelta D-shaped with no lateral lobes ( Fig. 66 ); tergites II–VII with one pair of sigmoid wing-retaining setae, discal area with one pair of small setae medially and one pair laterally; tergite IX setae S1 short, no longer than basal width of tube, S2 and S3 more than 0.5 as long as tube.