Terebrantian thrips of India

Euthrips innoxius Karny, 1914: 359.

Dendrothripoides ipomoeae Bagnall, 1923: 625

Tryphactothrips mediosignatus Karny, 1925: 34.

Tryphactothrips mundus Karny, 1926: 190.

Heliothrips ipomeae Bondar, 1930: 18.

Scirtothrips gladiiseta Girault, 1933: 2

Female macroptera: Body golden yellow having lateral brown shadings; forewing pale with sub basal and median brown marking. Antennae 8 segmented; III–IV each with a forked sensorium. Head with dorsal surface reticulate, ocellar setae III on anterior margins of ocellar triangle. Pronotum without long setae. Metanotum irregularly reticulate, median setae behind anterior margin. Forewing slender, major setae minute. Abdominal tergites II–VIII laterally with several broadly based stout microtrichia; VI–VIII with 1–2 pairs of median stout setae pointing towards midline; posterior margin of VIII with dentate craspedum laterally but smooth craspedum medially; IX–X with setae stout. Abdominal sternite VII with median pair of setae arising at posterior margin.

Artocarpus heterophyllus (Moraceae), Ipomoea reptans (Convolvulaceae), Ipomoea staphylina (Convolvulaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Rachana & Varatharajan, 2017; Rachana, 2020)

Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Tyagi & Kumar, 2014; Rachana & Varatharajan, 2017)

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

Bagnall, R. S., 1923, Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera XIII. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 12(9): 624–631.

Bondar., 1930, Insectos damninhos e molestias da batata doce no Brasil. O Campo Rio de Janeiro, 1(9): 17–20.

Girault, A. A., 1933, Some beauties inhabitant not of commercial boudoirs but of nature's bosom, notably new insects. Privately published, Brisbane, 1–5.

Karny, H., 1914, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gallen von Java. Zweite Mitteilung über die javanischen Thysanopterocecidien und deren Bewohner. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, 10: 355–369.

Karny, H., 1925, Die an Tabak auf Java und Sumatra angetroffenen Blasenfüsser. Bulletin van het deli Proefstation te Medan., 23: 1–55.

Karny, H., 1926, Studies on Indian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India Entomology Series, 9: 187–239.

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.

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2014, New records of thrips (Thysanoptera, Terebrantia, Thripidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India. Rec. Zool. Surv. India., 114
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