Haplothrips timori Mound & Minaei, 2007: 2962

Haplothrips timori Mound & Minaei Haplothrips timori Mound & Minaei, 2007: 2962 (Figs 6, 12) This is an unusual species, of which very few specimens have ever been found. Described from a single male taken near Darwin in northern Australia, seven specimens are listed below that share most character states with this holotype. Amongst these specimens the setae on tergite IX are curiously variable. The holotype male has setae S1 and S3 capitate, with S2 pointed on one side but blunt on the other. However, the three males from Badu Is. have setae S1 and S2 more or less capitate but S3 long and acute, whereas the female collected with them has all three pairs of setae capitate. The two females from Timor-Leste have setae S1 capitate, S2 pointed and unusually short (10 microns), and S3 pointed but about as long as S1. The single female from South Australia is probably not conspecific, because the setae on tergite IX, also the pronotal epimeral setae, are very short and broadly capitate. Specimens studied. Torres Strait Islands, Badu Is., 3 males, 1 female from Coriandrum, 18.xi.2009. South Australia, Adelaide, Mt George, 1 female from dead leaves, 19.xii.2005. Timor-Leste, Dili, 1 female from Euphorbia hirta, 20.ii.2005, 1 female from grasses, 21.viii.2018.Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2019, Identification of Haplothrips species from Malesia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae), pp. 41-50 in Zootaxa 4623 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/325355