Pseudanaphothrips uniformis (Bagnall)

Pseudanaphothrips uniformis (Bagnall) View in CoL

( Figs 13 View FIGURES 10–17 , 34 View FIGURES 27–34 )

Physothrips uniformis Bagnall, 1926: 102 View in CoL .

Bagnall described this species from an unspecified number of females taken in Victoria, at Ben Cairn near Healesville, from Senecio dryadeus View in CoL , 17.i.1926 ( R. Kelly). One female labelled as “Type” by Bagnall was selected as lectotype by Sakimura (1968). This specimen has been re-examined and compared to the following specimens from southern Tasmania: Mt Wellington, 4 females from Bedfordia View in CoL flowers, 27.xi.2012, and 2 females from white Asteraceae View in CoL flowers; Strathblane , 1 female from dead branches, 2.ii.2016 (in ANIC) ; Mt Wellington, 2 females from white Asteraceae View in CoL flowers, 27.xi.2012 (in QDPC) ; Bruny Is., 1 female from Helichrysum sp. , and 2 females from Senecio quadridentalis , 13.xi.1966; Sandy Bay , 1 male from Pimelia nivea , 17.xi.1968; and Fern Tree, 1 female from Pomaderris sp. , 28.x.1966 (in NHM) .

The slightly elongate tergite X of all the examined females is a character state shared only with aureolus among Pseudanaphothrips species. However, this tergite is shorter than that of the yellow species from eastern Australia, a species that has the tergite VIII comb of microtrichia remarkably long and evenly spaced. Both species share with several others the condition of metanotal sculpture lines closely parallel and convergent posteromedially. The males have small, circular to oval, pore plates.