Thrips laurencei Rachana & Varatharajan
Nomenclature
Thrips laurencei Rachana & Varatharajan, 2017
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body brownish yellow, head pale brown infused with yellow, pronotum pale brown, pterothorax pale brown, often paler laterally; abdomen darker than head and thorax, with brown patches on tergites; legs pale brownish yellow. Antennae 7-segmented. Ocellar setae III small, behind the first ocellus and within ocellar triangle; post ocular setae II smaller than I and III. Pronotum with faint transverse striations anteriorly and posteriorly; posterior margin with 3 pairs of setae inner to major angulars. Metanotum with longitudinal lines; median setae arising behind anterior margin; campaniform sensilla present. Fore wing slightly dusky with base paler; first vein with 7 proximal and 3 distal setae; second vein with 15–17 setae. Abdominal tergite II with 4 lateral marginal setae; posteromarginal comb on VIII long, fine and complete; IX with two pairs of campaniform sensilla, X with incomplete median split. Pleurotergites II – V with 1–2 discal setae. Sternites with no discal setae.
Male macroptera: Similar to female but smaller and uniformly yellow in colour. Posteriomarginal comb on tergite VIII absent. Abdominal sternites III–VII each with a transverse pore plate slightly contracted at middle.
specimens collected on
Hydrangea macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae) (Rachana and Varatharajan, 2017)
Distribution
Tamil Nadu (Rachana and Varatharajan, 2017)
References
Rachana, R. R. and Varatharajan, R., 2017, A new species of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa, 4221(4): 491 – 493.
