Terebrantian thrips of India

Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus Hood, 1919: 94.

Rhipiphorothrips karna Ramakrishna, 1928: 252.

Female macroptera: Body dark brown; forewing with yellowish brown base, clavus dark brown; legs yellow. Head strongly rugose, minute setae; antennae 8 segmented, III–IV with a simple sense cone. Pronotum rugose, major setae absent; metanotal triangle extends to half of metascutellum. Forewing anterior margin without setae and fringe cilia, posterior cilia straight, veinal setae minute. Abdominal tergite I reticulated, II–VII sculptured laterally, VII –VIII with a pair of stout posteromedian setae, postero median of IX–X with a pair of expanded setae.

Male macroptera: Sculpture and chaetotaxy similar to female but different in colour. Pronotum brown and abdomen yellow. Abdominal segment IV with a lateral tooth like process. Abdominal sternites III–VII each with an anteromedian circular pore gland.

Anacardium occidentale (Anacardiaceae), Careya arborea (Lecithydaceae),  Cyperus sp. (Poaceae), Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae), Lagerstomea sp. (Lythraceae), Psydium guajava (Myrtaceae); Punica granatum (Punicaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae),  Rosa sp. (Rosaceae), Syzygium cumini (Myrtaceae); Terminalia sp. (Combretaceae), Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Rachana, 2020)  

Andaman Island, Assam, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016)   

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

Hood, J. D., 1919, On some new Thysanoptera from southern India. Insecutor Inscitiae menstruus., 7: 90–103.

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

Ramakrishna, T.V., 1928, A contribution to our knowledge of the Thysanoptera of India. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India. Entomology Series., 7: 217–316.

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