Fungus-feeding Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae of the Idiothrips genus-group in Australia, with nine new species Author Mound, Laurence A. Author Tree, Desley J. text Zootaxa 2015 4034 2 325 341 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.5 0e05b3f6-6c74-4a2a-805b-6b026b37c082 1175-5326 245133 43A9BB87-D5E4-4AEA-8955-152AE3A843A3 Strepterothrips tuberculatus (Girault) ( Figs 26 , 28 , 41 ) Rhopalothrips tuberculatus Girault, 1929 : 2 . A full description of this species, indicating its wide distribution across Australia , was provided by Mound and Ward (1971) . Males vary greatly in body size, head shape, and length of the claw-like fore tarsal hamus, and fully winged females occur in low numbers. Moreover, antennal segment III varies in colour, both within and between populations, from almost uniformly dark brown ( Fig. 26 ) to pale brownish-yellow. This thrips is common on dead, often dry, twigs in eastern Australia , and has been studied from Kangaroo Island, South Australia , Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales (including ACT and Lord Howe Island), Central and southeastern Queensland, and the southwest of Western Australia . The species is established in New Zealand , but despite extensive collecting activity, only one female, a macroptera, has been taken from the northern, tropical, areas of Australia . On Norfolk Island a similar species, verruculus , is common but this differs from tuberculatus in details of sculpture and thoracic chaetotaxy ( Figs 39–41 ).