Opimothrips tubulatus Nonaka and Okajima
Nomenclature
Opimothrips tubulatus Nonaka and Okajima, 1992: 106.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body yellowish brown, fore legs yellow; forewing uniformly shaded with apex pale, clavus brown. Antennae 8 segmented; III–IV with thin, Y-shaped sense cones, the arms unusually thin and curving around the segment; outer sense cone on VI extending to midpoint of VIII. Eyes not bulged, covering lateral side almost completely; genae much reduced, without protruding transparent fringe. Pronotum reticulate, raised sculpture on lateral margins; median area with transverse reticulations. Metanotal median triangle weakly indicated; polygonally reticulate, extending beyond posterior margin, median setae anterior to campaniform sensilla. Forewing base humped; first vein with 7 basal setae, 2 at middle and 2 distally, thin and pointed; second vein with 6 setae, curved except last three; posteromarginal cilia wavy. Abdominal tergite I reticulations extending beyond margin; median area of II with weak reticulations, laterally with wart-like tubercles; VIII with complete posteromarginal comb of minute teeth; X asymmetric, median split complete.
specimens collected on
Unidentified weed (Rachana et al., 2019)
Distribution
Karnataka (Rachana et al., 2019)
References
Nonaka, T. and Okajima, S., 1992, Two new genera and species of the subfamily Panchaetothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from Southeast Asia. Bull. Biogeogr. Soc. Jpn., 47 (11): 103–107.
Rachana, R.R., Mound, L. A. and Rayar, S.G., 2019, Tryphactothripini of India (Thysanoptera, Thripidae, Panchaetothripinae), with identification keys and a new record of Opimothrips. ZooKeys., 884: 43–52.
