Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia
Author
Mound, Laurence A.
text
Zootaxa
2011
3064
1
40
journal article
46148
10.5281/zenodo.200567
dbb812a3-60dd-4f6f-bb48-9e2ce120221a
1175-5326
200567
Monothrips flavus
Moulton
(Figs 75, 78–79)
Monothrips flavus
Moulton, 1940
: 246
This species was described from one female, collected from
Saccharum
at Rabaul, New
Britain
, and a second female was subsequently recorded from
Australia
, just south of Darwin (
Mound, 2002
). It is very similar in structure and colour to
M. cuspis
described above, apart from the form of the tergal and sternal craspeda (
Figs 78, 79
). The fore ocellus is usually much smaller than the other two ocelli, and ocellar setae III are about as long as the side of the triangle (Fig. 75).
Material studied. Western
Australia
; Broome, Willie Creek,
3 females
from
Chrysopogon pallidus
; Cable Beach,
5 females
from
Stipa
sp.
Northern Territory
, Humpty Doo,
1 female
from grass,
15.v.1999
.
Queensland
, Badu
Island
,
2 females
from
Chrysopogon phallax
lvs,
18.xi.2009
; Tully,
1 female
from grasses,
25.vii.1968
.