Apelaunothrips tasmani Mound

Mound, Laurence A., 2013, Species diversity in the Palaeotropical leaf-litter genus Apelaunothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae), Zootaxa 3741 (1), pp. 181-193 : 192

Apelaunothrips tasmani Mound

Described on two females from northern Queensland, Australia, and two females with three males from Papua New Guinea, the series listed below has now been studied from Central Queensland. These specimens are paler than the holotype, but the body colour is distinctive with the metathorax and first abdominal segment yellow, and abdominal segment VI clearly paler than the brown segments II–V and VII–IX. The legs are yellow, the mesonotal lateral setae are long and capitate, and the pelta bears a pair of campaniform sensilla.

Specimens studied. Australia, Queensland: Holotype female, 7 miles north of Atherton, 3.v.1967 (in Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra); near Bororen, 120km northwest of Bundaberg, 5 females, 3 males in pitfall trap, x.2007 (J.King) (in Queensland Primary Industries Insect Collection, Brisbane).