Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae) Author Eow, Li-Xin Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences School, Science & Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia. E-mail: eowlixin @ gmail. com, sl. cameron @ qut. edu. au & CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601. E-mail: laurence. mound @ csiro. au & Queensland Primary Industries Insect Collection (QDPC), GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Qld, 4001. E-mail: desley. tree @ daff. qld. gov. au text Zootaxa 2014 2014-06-20 3821 2 193 221 journal article 5348 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.2 e03ba3fc-13a1-4096-b515-a772de4ec84e 1175-5326 4919972 C93F0714-35E6-46BE-8754-D5B17C4F7FF5 Nesothrips aoristus Mound, 1974 a: 68 This species remains known only from the original series of three females and two males that were collected in South Australia , south of Adelaide. The head bears a pair of prominent postocellar setae that are similar in position and size to those of lativentris , the major setae on the pronotum are unusually stout as are the median setae on the metanotum . Diagnosis. Micropterous with very short fore wing lobe; body, legs and antennae dark brown, pedicel of antennal segment III yellow; head slightly longer than wide, postocellar and postocular setae long and dark; pronotum with 5 pairs of long, stout dark setae; metanotal median setae long and stout; pelta with large median lobe and slender lateral wings; tergites III–VII with one pair of weakly sigmoid wing-retaining setae, discal area with one pair of small setae medially and one pair laterally; tergite IX with the ventro-lateral pair of setae, S3, unusually short and stout. Male smaller than female, large male with L-shaped fore femora and large fore tarsal tooth; tergite IX setae S3 longer than S2.