Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard)
Nomenclature
Physopus rubrocinctus Giard, 1901: 263.
Heliothrips (Selenothrips) decolor Karny, 1911: 179.
Heliothrips (Selenothrips) mendax Schmutz, 1913: 994.
Brachyurothrips indicus Bagnall, 1926: 98.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Blackish-brown body, tibial apices and tarsi yellow; forewing brown. Antennae 8 segmented, III–IV with a forked sense cone, sense cone on VI reaching beyond apex of antennae. Head constricted at base. Pronotum striate transversely. Metanotal triangle prominent with transverse sculpture lines. Forewing with elongated costal setae, first and second veins with almost complete row of setae. Abdominal tergite VIII with numerous discal microtrichia, posteromarginal comb long and complete.
specimens collected on
Anacardium occidentale (Anacardiaceae), Annona reticulate (Annonaceae), Aporosa sp. (Phyllanthaceae), Gardenia sp. (Rubiaceae), Quercus sp. (Fagaceae); Saraca ashoka (Fabaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Rachana & Varatharajan, 2017; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018; Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Andaman Island, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, West Bengal (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Rachana & Varatharajan, 2017; Rachana, 2020)
References
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Sen, S., 1980, Taxonomy of Indian thysanoptera. Zool. Surv. India. (Handb. Ser.)., 1:1–234.
Bagnall, R. S., 1926, Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera XV. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 18(9): 98–114.
Giard, 1901, Sur un thrips (Physopus rubrocincta nov. sp.) nuisible au Cacaoyer. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr., 15: 263-265.
Johnson, T. and Varatharajan, R., 2018, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna from the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. Halteres., 9: 143–150.
Karny, H., 1911, Revision der Gattung Heliothrips Haliday. Entomologische Rundschau, 28: 179–182.
Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.
Rachana, R.R. and Varatharajan, R., 2017, Additions to the thrips (Thysanoptera) fauna of Odisha, India. J. Appl. Natural Sci., 9 (3): 1522–1524.
Schmutz, K., 1913, Zur Kenntnis der Thysanopterenfauna von Ceylon. Sitz.-Ber. K. Akad. Wiss., 122 (7): 991–1089.
