Terebrantian thrips of India

Reticulothrips peringueyi Faure, 1925: 145.

Phibalothrips basis Chen, 1981: 123.

Female macroptera: Body bicoloured, head and thorax dark brown, abdomen yellow; antennal segments I–V yellow, VI and VII brown; forewing pale yellow with brown base, clavus brown; legs yellow. Head quadrate, reticulate, ocelli small, ocellar region weakly elevated, minute setae, posterior dorsum constricted to a collar area; antennae 7 segmented, III–IV each with a simple sense cone. Pronotum with expanded lateral margin, setae minute; metanotal triangle prominent, reticulate. Forewing anterior margin without setae and fringe cilia, posterior cilia straight, veinal setae minute. Abdominal tergites with median longitudinal raised areas, B2 setae on IX longer than B1.

Cynodon dactylon (Poaceae), Glycine max (Fabaceae), Panicum sp. (Poaceae), Paspalum orbiculare (Poaceae); Zea mays (Poaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018; Rachana, 2020)  

Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018)       

Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Sen, S., 1980, Taxonomy of Indian thysanoptera. Zool. Surv. India. (Handb. Ser.)., 1:1–234.

Chen, L. S., 1981, Studies on the Panchaetothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Taiwan. Plant Protection Bulletin (Taiwan)., 23: 117–130.

Faure, J.C., 1925, A new genus and five new species of South African Thysanoptera. South African J. Natural History, 5: 143–166

Johnson, T. and Varatharajan, R., 2018, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna from the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. Halteres., 9: 143–150.

Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98