Generic diagnosis

Large, usually macropterous Idolothripinae with body colour dark brown or yellowish. Head projecting in front of eyes, projection as long as or longer than dorsal length of eyes; compound eyes greatly prolonged ventrally; head with 2 pairs of interocellar setae, 1 pair of postocellars, and 2 pairs of postocular setae behind inner margin of eyes; genae each with one stout seta. Pronotal anteroangular setae close to midlaterals; notopleural sutures almost complete. Prosternal basantra present or absent; metathoracic sternopleural sutures absent. Metanotum with 1 pair of stout setae placed far apart. Fore tarsus with no tooth; fore femora with 2 or more stout setae on outer margin. Fore wing with duplicated cilia. Pelta broad, trilobed; tergites III–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tube long, more than 3 times as long as tergite IX; sternites with numerous discal setae arranged in 2 or more irregular rows.

Nomenclatural data

Holurothrips Bagnall, 1914: 376. Type species Holurothrips ornatus Bagnall, by monotypy.

Four species are placed in this genus, the other three being from tropical Asia (ThripsWiki, 2022).

Australian species
Holurothrips collessi Mound, 1974: 58.

Relationship data

This genus is placed in the Idolothripinae, Idolothripini, Hystricothripina, a sub-tribe with taxa found mainly in the Neotropics.

Distribution data

The Australian species is known only from a single specimen taken in northern Queensland.

Biological data

The species of this genus live particularly in leaf-litter where they feed on fungal spores.

References

Mound LA (1974) Spore-feeding Thrips (Phlaeothripidae) from Leaf Litter and Dead Wood in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 1–106.

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