Nesothrips undetermined
Creators: name: Eow, Li-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Nesothrips
Nesothrips undetermined

description: Key to Nesothrips species from Australia   
1. Head 1.3–1.5 times as long as wide (Figs 47–50); tergite IX setae S1 more than 0.75 as long as tube.................... 2  
-. Head wider than long, or no more than 1.1 times as long as wide (Figs 51–55); tergite IX setae S1 less than 0.6 as long as tube.................................................................................................... 6  
 2. Head with postocellar setae elongate, more than twice as long as distance between their bases (Fig. 47) [body dark brown with antennal segment III yellow, IV yellow on basal half].................................................. lativentris   
-. Head with postocellar setae shorter than distance between their bases........................................... 3  
 3. Postocellar setae long, about 0.8 as long as distance between their bases, with broadly blunt apices; pronotum with 2 pairs of major epimeral setae (Fig. 67) [legs, head, thorax and abdominal segment I yellow, abdomen dark brown]....... capricornis   
-. Postocellar setae small, no more than 0.5 as long as distance between their bases, with apices pointed; pronotum usually with only one pair of long setae on each epimeron................................................................ 4  
 4. Pronotum with 5 pairs of major setae (Fig. 62); vertex weakly reticulate, mid-dorsal head setae well developed (Fig. 50).............................................................................................. coorongi sp.n.   
-. Pronotum with only 3 pairs of major setae; vertex without reticulation even in ocellar region, mid-dorsal head setae small... 5  
 5. Antennal segment III almost 4 times as long as apical width (Fig. 60); pronotal aa setae less than 0.5 as long as postocellar setae...................................................................................... barrowi sp.n.   
 -. Antennal segment III less than 3 times as long as wide (Fig. 59); pronotal aa setae about 2.0 times as long as postocellar setae................................................................................................ badius   
 6. Pelta D-shaped, with no lateral lobes (Fig. 66)....................................................... hemidiscus   
-. Pelta with lateral lobes................................................................................. 7  
 7. Metanotum with no sculpture on anterior third, with narrowly linear reticulation on posterior two-thirds (Fig. 63)....................................................................................................... rossi sp.n.   
-. Metanotal sculpture different, often with equiangular reticulation (see Fig. 64)..................................... 8  
 8. Female tergite IX setae S3 short, no longer than basal width of tube; major setae on head, pronotum and metanotum unusually stout and dark [eyes not prolonged ventrally].......................................................... aoristus   
-. Female tergite IX setae S3 long, much longer than basal width of tube; major setae on head, pronotum and metanotum not stout and dark........................................................................................ 9  
 9. Entire posterior margin of eyes prolonged on ventral surface (Fig. 57); usually apterous with ocelli absent (Fig. 51) [antennal segment I yellow]............................................................................. propinquus   
-. Ventral posterior margin of eyes not prolonged; usually winged, if micropterous then wing lobe relatively long and hind ocelli present............................................................................................. 10  
10. Antennal segment I brown, as dark as head................................................................ 11  
-. Antennal segment I yellow to brownish yellow, much paler than head........................................... 12  
 11. Antennae brown but III sharply yellow near base (Fig. 61)................................................ carveri   
 -. Antennal brown but segment III mainly yellow, IV–V yellow at base....................................... yanchepi   
 12. Ocellar setae arise on or anterior to a tangent between anterior margins of hind ocelli (Fig. 54)............. brigalowi sp.n.   
 -. Ocellar setae arise posterior to tangent between anterior margins of hind ocelli and close to tangent between posterior margins of hind ocelli (Fig. 52).............................................................................. minor
description: Published as part of Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), pp. 193-221 in Zootaxa 3821 (2) on pages 211-213, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4919972