Body bicoloured, head brown, mesonotum and metanotum light brown to brown; abdominal tergites II–VII with antecostal ridge brown, II–IV brown laterally, VII–IX dark brown, X light brown; fore wing with clearly defined sub-basal pale band, but median pale band and apical pale area weakly defined from surrounding brown areas, clavus dark with pale setae; antennal segment I pale, II–III and base of IV mainly pale but with weak shadings; hind tibiae yellow with external margin shaded, femora light brown. Head with occipital apodeme well separated from posterior margin of eyes, ocellar area transversely striate; antennal segments III & IV constricted to short apical neck. Pronotum transversely striate without internal markings, pronotal blotch with anterior striae more closely spaced and bearing transverse row of setae; mesonotum and anterior part of metanotum striate; metasternal plate with shallow emargination anteriorly. Fore wing second vein with no setae distally. Abdominal tergites VII–VIII with complete comb of microtrichia on posterior margin but sometimes irregular on VII, no comb 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. Neohydatothrips paraensis is similar to N. maculicollis in colour and sculpture, but has the postoccipital apodeme more distant from the posterior margin of the eyes. A key to the Neotropical species of Neohydatothrips is provided by Lima & Mound (2016).
