New records and four new species of Australian Thripidae (Thysanoptera) emphasise faunal relationships between northern Australia and Asia Author Mound, Laurence A. Author Tree, Desley J. text Zootaxa 2011 2764 35 48 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.276839 b8d76eaa-50a4-4af1-8eab-5a13f02705bb 1175-5326 276839 Projectothrips Moulton Projectothrips Moulton, 1929 : 95 . Type-species Projectothrips pruthi Moulton Species of this genus are highly distinctive, because of the elongate, slender, eighth antennal segment that is about nine times as long as wide ( Fig. 14 ). Together with its generic synonym Docidothrips Priesner, the genus currently includes eight species. Each of these is known only from the Oriental and Pacific Regions, and they all live in the flowering spikes of Pandanus species (screw pines). Collecting thrips from these flowers can be particularly difficult, and thus several of the species are known from few specimens with little information on intraspecific variation. The new species described below has been taken on two different species of Pandanus at two widely separated localities.