Body bicoloured, brown on mesonotum, metanotum, abdominal tergites II–IV and VII–IX and antecostal ridges on II–VIII; tergite X and pronotal blotch light brown; head pale with median area brown; fore femora yellow with suffused brown, mid and hind femora with basal half yellow but apical half brown; pronotum anterior third and abdominal tergites V–VI pale; antennal segment I light brown, II light brown at base but progressively yellow toward apex, III yellow on basal half but light brown on apical half, IV light brown on basal half and brown on apical half, V brown but slightly paler near base, VI–VIII brown; fore wing bicoloured with basal, median and sub-apical brown bands in contrast to three pale areas. Head with occipital apodeme not touching posterior margin of compound eyes; ocellar setae pair III near external margins of ocellar triangle, ocellar triangle transversely striate with internal markings between the striae. Pronotum striate, pronotal blotch weakly defined apart from anterior margin; mesonotum striate, median setal pair anterior to the lateral; metanotum anterior half transversely striate, posterior half longitudinally striate, two pairs of setae at anterior margin; metasternal plate with very shallow anterior emargination. Fore wing second vein with two setae. Abdominal tergites II–VI posterior margin with comb of microtrichia incomplete medially, VII with minute teeth medially, VIII with comb complete; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae; sternites III–VI with discal microtrichia medially, absent medially on VII.
Male similar to female but smaller with tergite VII pale; sternites without pore plates.
Intraspecific variation
Not recorded.
Genus and similar species information
Almost 120 species are included in Neohydatothrips, most from tropical countries (Mound & Tree 2009). All of them have the abdominal sternites and lateral thirds of tergites covered by rows of fine microtrichia, with many of them being bicoloured and with banded fore wings. Neohydatothrips renatae is similar to N. paraensis, but has the head pale with a median brown area. A key to the Neotropical species of Neohydatothrips is provided by Lima & Mound (2016).
