Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera) diversity in Australia, with three new generic records and two new species Author Mound, Laurence A. Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601. Author Tree, Desley J. c / o Queensland Primary Industries Insect Collection (QDPC), Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland, Ecosciences Precinct, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Qld, 4001. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-02-25 5104 2 291 296 journal article 20466 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.8 55bf62ec-e1ee-4672-baa8-1bb344b52ec0 1175-5326 6280984 8B05540A-8207-4AA3-ADC1-AC58E4DE65E0 Tylothrips osborni (Hinds) ( Figs 10–12 ) Described originally from Massachusetts , USA , this species is widespread in eastern North America, and has been found in Panama and Trinidad . It is the only member of the genus that is considered not endemic to the Neotropics, and a few specimens have been recorded in recent years in different parts of Europe and Iran ( Uzun Yiðit et al . 2021 ; Mirab-balou et al . 2022). As with the two specimens from Australia listed below, this thrips has presumably been introduced inadvertently to various countries by the horticultural trade. In common with other members of the genus, it is fungus-feeding in leaf litter. The members of Tylothrips are distinguished from other leaf-litter thrips by the presence of a pair of curiously long and slender capitate setae ventro-laterally on the metathorax ( Fig. 11 ). The head, pronotum and metanotum of T. osborni lack sculpture medially ( Figs 10, 12 ). Specimen studied . Queensland , Brisbane , Hemmant Creek , 1 female in emergence trap, 7.xii.2010 ( M.Shivas ), in QDPC ; Australian Capital Territory , Canberra , Mt Stromlo , 1 female beaten from Allocasuarina verticillata branch, 21.i.2022 ( Alice Wells ) .