Terebrantian thrips of India

Anascirtothrips arorai Bhatti, 1961: 26.

Anascirtothrips ficus Bhatti, 1967: 11.

Female macroptera: Body yellow, abdominal tergites II–VI with lateral brown area; forewing pale with sub-basal and median faint brown shading. Antennae 7 segmented, III–IV each with a forked sensorium. Head with 3 ocellar setae pairs, pair III outside ocellar triangle; 3 postocular setae pairs. Pronotum with 5 short posteromarginal setae pairs. Metanotum with faint transverse sculpture, median setae positioned behind anterior margin; without campaniform sensilla. Forewing upper vein with 3 setae on distal half; lower vein with 3–4 setae. Abdominal tergites I–VIII with median setae pair close together; posterolateral tergal margins with microtrichial fringe, complete medially on VIII; lateral thirds of II–VIII with 6–10 rows of discal microtrichia; IX with numerous microtrichia on posterior half, X without longitudinal split. Abdominal sternites II–VI with short microtrichia on posterior margin between setae bases.  

Ficus sp. (Moraceae), Ficus religiosa (Moraceae), Musa sp. (Musaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Poorani & Thanigairaj, 2019; Rachana, 2020)

Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1990)   

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

Bhatti, J. S., 1961, Anascirtothrips arorai novo genus and species, with notes on Chirothrips meridionalis Bagnall new to India. Bull. Entomol., 2: 26–29

Bhatti, J. S., 1967, Thysanoptera nova Indica. Published by the author, Delhi pp. 1–24.

Bhatti, J. S., 1990, Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (J. Pure Appl. Zool.)., 2: 205–352.

Poorani, J. and Thanigairaj, R., 2019, Record of Asprothrips navsariensis Tyagi as a pest of Banana from Tamil Nadu with notes on other thrips infesting Banana. Indian Journal of Entomology, 81(3):434–438.

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

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