Terebrantian thrips of India

Hydatothrips longirostris Rachana, Amarendra & Vanitha, 2023

Female macroptera: Body bicoloured; head and pterothorax brown; pronotum yellow; metanotum pale at posterior third; abdominal segment I yellow with lateral third brown, II–III & VI brown with pale median area, IV–V & VII–X yellow. Fore wing banded with sub-basal, median and apical pale areas in contrast to three brown bands, basal ¾ of clavus brown; all femora, tibiae and tarsi yellow with brown infusion. Antennae 8-segmented, segments III and IV each with forked sense cones and reaching to the basal 1/5 of the next segment. Head with occipital apodeme touching posterior margin of eyes; ocellar setae III placed outside ocellar triangle; three pairs of postocular setae along posterior inner margin of eyes, median pair long, longer than ocellar setae III and the rest sub equal; mouth cone unusually long, extending to metasternum. Pronotum transversely reticulate with internal markings in front of blotch area; blotch not defined except for anterior apodeme; second posteromarginal setae (S2) very stout, prominent and the longest; short posteroangular setae. Metanotum sculptured transversely anteromedially, longitudinally at each side, irregularly reticulate at median posterior third, with internal markings; median setae a little behind anterior margin. Fore wing first vein with about 20–21 setae, second vein with 2 setae. Abdominal tergites I–VI medially without marginal microtrichia; VII medially with minute marginal microtrichia; VIII with complete posteromarginal comb of long microtrichia; tergite I without median discal microtrichia, II–VI with discal microtrichia medially restricted to anterior one third, VII–VIII almost fully covered with discal mirotrichia; IX with no discal microtrichia; X with discal microtrichia posteriorly; tergal median setae situated at antecostal ridges; tergites II–VIII with setae S3 positioned at posterior margin, with 3–4 setae lateral to S3; tergite IX with asymmetric arrangement of mid-dorsal setae. Abdominal sternites II–VI completely covered with discal microtrichia, posterior margin with complete comb of microtrichia interrupted only at setal bases.

Male macroptera: Similar to female, but smaller in size; sternites III–VII with elongated transverse pore plate.

Getonia floribunda (Combretaceae) (Rachana et al., 2023)

Karnataka (Rachana et al., 2023)

Rachana, R.R., Amarendra, B. and Vanitha, K., 2023. A new species of Hydatothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from India with one new record. Zootaxa, 5319(4): 589–594.