Sericothrips staphylinus Haliday

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, And Desley J., 2009, Identification and host-plant associations of Australian Sericothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 1983, pp. 1-22 : 21

Sericothrips staphylinus Haliday

( Figs 77–79)

Sericothrips staphylinus Haliday, 1836: 444

Introduced in 2001 for the biological control of the noxius weed, Ulex europaeus , this Western European species is established in Tasmania and Victoria, and possibly also in South Australia ( Ireson et al., 2008). One of the darkest members of the Sericothripinae in Australia, it is easily recognised from the structure of the metanotum and abdominal tergites ( Figs 77, 78). Sternites IV–VII of males have a small circular (sometimes divided) glandular area medially.