Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouche)
Nomenclature
Thrips haemorrhoidalis Bouche, 1833: 42.
Heliothrips adonidum Haliday, 1836: 443.
Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis abdominalis Reuter, 1891: 165.
Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis ceylonicus Schmutz, 1913: 992.
Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis angustior Priesner, 1923: 89.
Heliothrips semiaureus Girault, 1928: 1
Dinurothrips rufiventris Girault, 1929: 1
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body dark brown, legs yellow; antennal segments III–V and VII–VIII yellow, VI dark brown in apical half; forewing pale with shaded posterior margin. Antennal segments III and IV each with a simple sense cone; VIII longer than VII. Pronotum reticulate. Metanotum reticulate with a well defined triangle, median setae small, a little away from anterior margin. Forewing apex round with two long cilia; posteromarginal cilia straight; veinal setae not much longer than microtrichia. Abdominal tergite VIII with long marginal comb on posterior margin.
specimens collected on
Ficus sp. (Moraceae), Taraxacum sp. (Asteraceae), Rosa sp. (Rosaceae)
Distribution
Andamans, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Akhtar & Azim, 2013; Tyagi and Kumar, 2016; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018)
References
Akhtar, N. and Azim, M.N., 2013. A preliminary survey of thrips (Thysanoptera) from Kashmir Himalaya. Halteres, 4: 15–18.
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Sen, S., 1980, Taxonomy of Indian thysanoptera. Zool. Surv. India. (Handb. Ser.)., 1:1–234.
Bouche., 1833, Naturgeschichte der schaldingen und nutzlichen Garten-Insekten und die bewahrtesten Mittel zur Vertilgung der ersteren. Berlin: 42.
Girault, A. A., 1928, A prodigeous discourse on wild animals. Published privately, Brisbane, 1–3.
Girault, A. A., 1929, New pests from Australia VI. Privately published, Brisbane,
pp. 1–4.
Haliday, A. H., 1836, An epitome of the British genera of the Order Thysanoptera, with indications of a few of the species. Entomol. Mag., 3: 439–451.
Johnson, T. and Varatharajan, R., 2018, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna from the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. Halteres., 9: 143–150.
Priesner, H., 1923, Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Thysanopteren Surinams. Tijdschr. Entomol., 66: 88–111.
Reuter, 1891, Thysanoptera, funna i finska orangerier. Meddeleser af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica., 17: 160–167.
Schmutz, K., 1913, Zur Kenntnis der Thysanopterenfauna von Ceylon. Sitz.-Ber. K. Akad. Wiss., 122 (7): 991–1089.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.
