Body bicoloured, head light brown, metanotum brown but mesonotum yellowish-brown, abdominal tergites II–III brown on lateral two thirds, IV–VI yellow with small brown areas anterolaterally and antecostal ridge dark, VII–IX brown; pronotum pale with pronotal blotch weakly defined; fore wing with 3 dark and 3 pale bands, apex pale, clavus dark with pale setae; antennal segments I, II and most of III pale, IV brown with base paler, V–VIII brown; hind tibiae yellow with brown markings. Head with occipital apodeme almost confluent with posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area with closely spaced striations; antennal segments III & IV with an apical neck. Pronotum transversely striate; mesonotum and metanotum closely striate; metasternal plate weakly developed, and with anterior margin almost transverse. Fore wing second vein with no setae. Abdominal tergites VII–VIII with complete comb of microtrichia on posterior margin, comb absent medially on remaining tergites; tergite IX with 2 pairs of mid-dorsal setae.
Male not known.
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 flavicollis is known only from three females, and these are very similar to N. fasciatus but have a shorter mouth cone. A key to the Neotropical species of Neohydatothrips is provided by Lima & Mound (2016).
