Lissothrips dentatus Mound & Walker, 1986 : 66

Mound, Laurence A. & Tree, Desley J., 2015, Species of Lissothrips and Williamsiella from mosses and lichens in Australia and New Zealand (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae), Zootaxa 3946 (3), pp. 361-373 : 367

Lissothrips dentatus Mound & Walker, 1986: 66

( Figs 3 , 17 )

This is one of the few members of the genus in which antennal segment III is almost as large as segment IV ( Fig. 3 ), and for which fully winged adults are known. The original description of the female apterae refers to “curved wing-retaining setae” on tergites II–VII, but examination of six specimens from the same series as the holotype suggests that this statement was probably a copying error. Some of the tergites have a small, weakly curved seta in the position that a wing-retaining seta would be expected, but this condition is variable amongst the available specimens. The male paratypes have a small transverse pore plate on the eighth sternite. The female from Queensland listed below cannot be distinguished from the New Zealand paratypes, but the two females from ACT have the median setae on tergites II–III longer, almost half as long as the median length of their tergite.

Material studied. New Zealand, Whatipu, west of Auckland, 4 females, 2 males from yellow lichen, 26.ii.1979. Australia, Queensland, Tully Falls, 1 female from dead branch, 4.vii.1995. Australian Capital Territory, Casuarina Sands , 2 females from lichen on Leptospermum branch, 3.xii.1994.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. Lissothrips species from Australia—antennae. (1) corticosus; (2) discus; (3) dentatus; (4) hypni; (5) tallagandai; (6) taverneri; (7) thomsonae.

FIGURES 16 – 21. Lissothrips species from Australia—meso & metanotum and pelta. (16) corticosus; (17); dentatus; (18) discus; (19) hypni; (20) tallagandai; (21) taverneri.