Exothrips hemavarna (Ramakrishna and Margabandhu)
Nomenclature
Oxythrips hemavarna Ramakrishna and Margabandhu, 1931: 1036.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body and legs golden yellow, apex of tergite X brown; forewing clear. Antennae 8 segmented; III–IV each with a forked sense cone. Head with ocellar pair III close together just above anterior margin of posterior ocelli. Pronotum weakly trapezoidal; without long setae. Metanotum with weak median reticulations; median setae a little behind anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 5 or 6 basal setae and 3 or 4 distal setae; second vein with 3 or 4 setae. Fore femora stout; hind tibia longer than the mid tibia. Abdominal tergites II–VIII with craspedum. Abdominal sternites without discal setae.
specimens collected on
Grass (Poaceae), Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Tyagi & Kumar, 2008)
Distribution
Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (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.
Ramakrishna, T.V. and Margabandhu, V., 1931, Notes on Indian Thysanoptera with brief descriptions of new species. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 34: 1025–1040.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2008, Checklist of Terebrantia (Thysanoptera) recorded from Karnataka. Biosystematica, 2(1): 41 – 48.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.
