Neocecidothrips curviseta (Girault) comb.n.

Horistothrips curviseta Girault, 1926: 2

Teuchothrips curviseta (Girault); Mound & Houston, 1987: 18

Described from an unspecified number of “Females from galls, Brisbane”, there are 15 damaged individuals of both sexes, apparently all macropterae, under two cover slips on the type slide (Fig. 1). These were the only known specimens until October 2007, when Desley Tree found the species inducing soft, thick-walled galls on the margins of leaves of Auranticarpa rhombifolia (Pittosporaceae) at The Gap, Brisbane. Each of the galls found at this site was very young, containing a single macropterous female. Eggs were present in only one gall, and the only male found was walking on the outside of a gall. Several of these galls also bore substantial numbers of eggs, larvae and adults of Teuchothrips ater, but these colonies were on the outer surface of the galls, particularly in the angle between a gall and the leaf lamina.