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 reedi Mound, 1974 a: 34 ( Fig. 25 ) This species is known from eastern New South Wales and Southeastern Queensland . It is very similar to vesper from western Australia , but has shorter antennae ( Fig. 25 , cf. Fig. 26 ) and the major setae are less capitate. The available specimens were taken from grasses and dead twigs. Diagnosis. Apterous or macropterous, body and legs brownish yellow with tube dark; head longer than wide, not projecting in front of eyes, vertex reticulate; eyes well developed dorsally but small ventrally with only 4–5 visible ommatidia; postocellar finely acute, postocular setae weakly capitate. Pronotal am setae short and acute, the other 4 pairs long and capitate, aa setae arising slightly mesad of anterior angle; notopleural sutures incomplete. Metanotum reticulate, with 4–6 minor setae anteromedially. Pelta broadly triangular with rounded margins (also macroptera); tergites III–VI with about 10 small discal setae in transverse row, wing-retaining setae minute in aptera, sigmoid in macroptera; tergite IX setae blunt and shorter than tube. Male with no fore tarsal tooth.