Diarthrothrips nimbus (Ananthakrishnan)
Nomenclature
Mycterothrips nimbus Ananthakrishnan, 1965: 20.
Diarthrothrips lantana Bhatti, 1967: 19
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body yellowish brown; forewing pale with a small, brown band a little beyond the base. Antennae 8 segmented; III–IV each with a forked sense cone. Head with ocellar pair III very long, arising a little beyond the tangent of anterior margins of posterior ocelli. Metanotum feebly reticulated medially, longitudinally striated laterally; median setae far behind anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 3 basal setae, 2 at middle and 2 distally; second vein with 12–14 setae. Abdominal tergite VIII without posteromarginal comb. Abdominal sternites without discal setae.
specimens collected on
Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae), Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu) (Bhatti, 1990; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016)
References
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Sen, S., 1980, Taxonomy of Indian thysanoptera. Zool. Surv. India. (Handb. Ser.)., 1:1–234.
Ananthakrishnan, T. N., 1965, Indian Terebrantia - II (Thysanoptera: Insecta). Bull. Entomol., 6: 15–29.
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.
Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.
