Retithrips syriacus (Mayet)
Nomenclature
Thrips (Heliothrips) syriacus Mayet, 1890: 451.
Retithrips aegyptiacus Marchal, 1910: 17.
Dictyothrips zanoniana Del Guercio, 1918: 106.
Stylothrips bondari Bondar, 1924: 46.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body blackish brown with polygonal reticulations, legs brown except yellow tarsi; forewing grey. Antennae 8 segmented; segments III and IV with 2 sense cones having a common base inserted deep within the socket. Forewing apical half with 3 calluses between the costal and anterior veins; anterior margin without fringe cilia, straight posterior fringe cilia; wing apex strongly rounded. Abdominal tergites reticulate fully; I with constricted posterior submedian areas, II–X with strongly reticulate median depressed area with wrinkles, VIII with complete comb of long microtrichia.
Male macroptera: Similar to female but smaller. Sternites III–VII each with a large transverse pore gland.
specimens collected on
Acalypha sp. (Euphorbiaceae), Cassia auriulata (Fabaceae), Gossypium sp. (Malvaceae), Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae), Punica granatum (Punicaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Rosa sp. (Rosaceae), Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Tyagi & Kumar, 2008; Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Andaman Island, Assam, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Singh & Varatharajan, 2013; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016)
References
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Sen, S., 1980, Taxonomy of Indian thysanoptera. Zool. Surv. India. (Handb. Ser.)., 1:1–234.
Bondar, G., 1924, Praga das roseiras na Bahia. Correio-Agricola Agricultura, Bahia., 2: 46–47.
Del Guercio., 1918, Note ed osservazioni de entomologica agraria. Instituto Agricolo Coloniale Italiano., 106–119.
Marchal., 1910, Sur un nouveau "Thrips" vivant sur la vigne en Egypte. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Egypte., 17–20.
Mayet., 1890, Les insects de la vigne. Bibliotheque Du Progres Agricole Et Viticole., 448–453.
Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.
Singh, H.C. and Varatharajan, R., 2013. Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna of Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Current Science, 105(9):1219–1223.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2008, Checklist of Terebrantia (Thysanoptera) recorded from Karnataka. Biosystematica, 2(1): 41–48.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.
