Body bicoloured, brown on head, mesonotum, metanotum, abdominal tergite II laterally; abdominal tergites III–VII with brown mark anterolaterally, but antecostal ridge pale medially except on VII; VIII–IX yellow; fore wings with 3 dark and 3 pale bands, apex pale, clavus dark with pale setae; antennal segments I–III pale, basal half of IV–VI pale; hind tibiae yellow. Head with occipital apodeme close to but not confluent with posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area irregularly reticulate-striate; antennal segments III & IV without an apical neck. Pronotal anterior area with narrow transverse reticulations without internal markings, pronotal blotch pale and transversely striate; mesonotum and metanotum striate; metasternal plate with shallow emargination. Fore wings second vein with 1 or 2 setae. Tergites VII–VIII with complete comb of long microtrichia on posterior margin, VI with comb short but longer than diameter of one campaniform sensillum, no comb on remaining tergites; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae. Both sexes fully winged.
Male similar to female but smaller.
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. This group is closely related to Hydatothrips, but anterior margin of metasternum is transverse or with weak emagination. Neohydatothrips fasciatus is closely related to N. daedalus, but has antennal segments I–IV, most of V and the base of VI unusually pale. A key to the Neotropical species of Neohydatothrips is provided by Lima & Mound (2016).
