The genus Hoplothrips in Australia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae), with eleven new species Author Mound, Laurence A. Author Wang, Jun Author Tree, Desley J. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-01-07 4718 3 301 323 journal article 24425 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.3.1 0539e3ec-e2d6-4ed3-9f5e-22677babf264 1175-5326 3602430 09F9270F-589A-471D-A912-2F2788544399 Hoplothrips fungosus Moulton ( Figs 4, 5, 6 , 24 ) Hoplothrips fungosus Moulton, 1928: 305 . Described from Taiwan , this species has been recorded from India and southern Japan and is probably widespread in East Asia ( Okajima 2006 ). It is here recorded from Australia in Northern Territory and also eastern Queensland . Okajima (2006) stated that this species “could well be placed in a different genus” because of the following character states: prosternal basantra present ( Fig. 24 ), female fore tarsal tooth absent, fore wings lacking duplicated cilia, male pore plate absent. However, prosternal basantra are present in the males of two new species described here from Australia , although these sclerites are not developed in females of one of these species, and the male of the other species has a transverse pore plate. Specimens studied. Australia , Northern Territory , Litchfield NP , 12 males , 11 females , 3 female macropterae from dead Melaleuca wood, 3.v.2014 ; Darwin, East Point , 1 female , 1 male from dead wood, 5.v.2014 ; Kuranda, 1 female from dead leaves, 5.xi.2008 ; Brisbane, Brookfield, 2 females , 1 female macroptera from barkspray, 22.i.2011 . [All apterae except where stated.]