Terebrantian thrips of India

Physothrips minor Bagnall, 1921: 393.

Physothrips thunbergiae Karny, 1923: 302.

Toxothrips ricinus Bhatti, 1967: 16.

Tsengothrips plumosa Chen, 1975: 107

Female macroptera: Body brown; forewing brown with base pale. Antennae 8 segmented; I with a pair of dorso apical setae; III–IV with a forked sensorium, IV with elongated apical neck, V with 2 flat sensoria. Head with ocellar pair III long, arising amid hind ocelli. Pronotum with 2 long posteroangular setae pairs, 3 posteromarginal setae pairs. Metanotum with weak reticulations medially, median setae pair at anterior margin, campaniform sensilla present. Forewing first vein with nearly complete setae row variably intermittent sub apically; second vein with complete setae row. Abdominal tergites II–VIII with weakly lobed craspedum. Abdominal sternites without accessory setae, IV–VI with small craspedal lobe among marginal setae, VII with median marginal setae arising ahead of margin.

Impatiens balsamina (Balsaminaceae), Ipomoea staphylina (Convolvulaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Thunbergia alata (Acanthaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Rachana, 2020)

Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, 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.

Bagnall, R. S., 1921, Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera XII. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 8(9): 393–400.

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.

Chen, L. S., 1975, A new genus and species of Thripidae (Thysanoptera) from Taiwan. Bull. Inst. Zool. Acad. Sin., 14: 107–109.

Karny, H., 1923, Beitrage zur Malayischen Thysanopterenfauna VI. Malayische Rindenthripse, gessammelt von Dr. NA Kemner VII. Gallenbewohnende Thysanopteren von Celebes und den Inseln südlich davon, gesammelt von Herrn W. Doctors v Leeuwen VIII. Ueber die tiergeographischen Beziehungen der malayischen Thysanopteren. Treubia., 3: 277–380.

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