Euphysothrips subramanii (Ramakrishna and Margabandhu)
Nomenclature
Megaphysothrips subramanii Ramakrishna and Margabandhu, 1939: 25.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body yellowish brown. Head with ocellar pair III within ocellar triangle; postocular setae pair I just behind ocelli, pairs III and IV long and stout, in a transverse row. Antennae 8 segmented; III and IV with a forked sense cone. Pronotum with conspicuous sculpture lines, anterior margin with 4–7 setae pairs, posterior margin with 8 setae pairs of which a long pair of posteroangular setae. Metanotum sculptured, median setae pair behind anterior margin. Forewing yellowish brown, pale base; first vein with 3 far apart setae on distal half; second vein with 4 widely separated setae. Abdominal tergites I and II with transverse striations, III–VII without any median sculpture, II–VII with broad craspedum along posterior margin; VIII with posteromarginal comb; IX with prominent mid dorsal setae, anterior campaniform sensilla present. Abdominal sternites without accessory setae.
specimens collected on
Camellia sinensis (Theaceae), Coffea sp. (Rubiaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; 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.
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.
Ramakrishna, T.V. and Margabandhu, V., 1939, Notes on new and known Indian Thysanoptera. Records of the Indian Museum, 41: 21–33.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.
