Distinguishing features

Macropterous, mainly dark brown, tergite V yellow laterally, pronotum with dark brown reticulation on anterior third; all tarsi yellow, mid and hind tibiae yellow at base and apex; fore wing dark with pale sub-basal area. Head with occipital carina close to eyes; ocellar triangle transversely reticulate; ocellar setae III lateral to triangle; two pairs of postocular setae, median pair not long and arising near posterior ocelli; postoccipital region reticulate. Pronotum anterior third boldly reticulate with faint dots internal to each reticle; blotch transversely reticulate with many dots internal to reticles, anterior angles of blotch acute. Metanotum with equiangular reticulation, with many internal dot-like markings. Metasternal plate anterior margin with broadly V-shaped emargination. Fore wing second vein with one seta; sub-apical lobe not developed. Tergite I medially without discal or marginal microtrichia, II–VI with short microtrichiate craspedum medially; antecostal ridge interrupted medially on tergite I, dark brown on II–VII. Sternites III–VII with discal microtrichia and posteromarginal microtrichia present only on lateral thirds.
Male not known.

Related species

The genus Neohydatothrips comprises 118 species worldwide, but relationships of N. poeta are not clear, because the metasternum is intermediate between species placed in the two genera, Hydatothrips and Neohydatothrips.

Biological data

Host plant not known

Distribution data

Presumably eastern Australia, known only from a few females, taken in Queensland (Brisbane; Carnarvon Station; Mt Garnet) and New South Wales (Taree).

Family name

THRIPIDAE - SERICOTHRIPINAE

Species name

Neohydatothrips poeta (Girault)

Original name & synonyms

Hydatothrips poeta Girault, 1926: 1

References

Mound LA & Tree DJ (2009) Identification and host-plant associations of Australian Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 1983: 1–22.