Terebrantian thrips of India

Anaphothrips sudanensis Trybom, 1911: 1

Euthrips (Anaphothrips) alternans Bagnall, 1913: 291.

Neophysopus medioflavus Schmutz, 1913: 1017.

Euthrips citricinctus Bagnall, 1919: 270.

Anaphothrips speciosus Hood, 1919: 76.

Anaphothrips bicolor Morgan, 1925: 4.

Anaphothrips transvaalensis Faure, 1925: 150.

Anaphothrips bicinctus Hood, 1925: 50.

Anaphothrips flavicinctus f. brachyptera Priesner, 1935: 355.

Anaphothrips (Neophysopus) piercei Moulton, 1936: 265.

Female macroptera: Body bicoloured, dark brown with yellow abdominal segments III–V (or VI); legs yellow; forewing pale with sub-basal dark band. Head projecting a little in front of eyes; ocellar setae III outside triangle, anterior to hind ocelli. Antennae 8 segmented, III–IV with a forked sense cone. Pronotum sculptured feebly. Metanotum irregularly reticulate, median setae well behind anterior margin; campaniform sensilla present or absent. Forewing first vein with 6 setae on basal half, 1 median seta and 2 distal setae; second vein with 8 setae. Abdominal tergites with small dentate microtrichia on lateral sculpture lines, sculpture not extending mesad of setae S2, dentate microtrichia on posterior margin laterally; VIII with complete posteromarginal comb.

Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae), Echinochloa sp. (Poaceae), Eleusine coracana (Poaceae), Eleusine indica (Poaceae), Eragostis uniloides (Poaceae), Grass (Poaceae), Maranta arundinacea (Marantaceae), Saccharum officinarum (Poaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Tyagi & Kumar, 2014; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018; Rachana, 2020)

Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Sikkim, West Bengal (Tyagi & Kumar, 2016; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018)

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

Bagnall, R. S., 1913, Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera I. Ann. Magazine Natural History, 12 (8): 290–299.

Bagnall, R. S., 1919, Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera X. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 4(9): 253–277.

Faure, J.C., 1925, A new genus and five new species of South African Thysanoptera. South African J. Natural History, 5: 143–166

Hood, J. D., 1919, Two new genera and thirteen new species of Australian Thysanoptera. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 32: 75–92.

Hood, J. D., 1925, New neotropical Thysanoptera collected by C.B. Williams. Psyche, 32: 48–69.

Johnson, T. and Varatharajan, R., 2018, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna from the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. Halteres., 9: 143–150.

Morgan, A.C., 1925, A new genus, a new subgenus and seven new species of Thysanoptera from Porto Rico. Fla. Entomol., 9: 1–7.

Moulton, D., 1936, Thysanoptera of the Philippine Islands. Philippine J. Agric., 7: 263–273.

Priesner, H., 1935, New or little-known oriental Thysanoptera. Philippine Journal of Science., 57: 351–375.

Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.

Schmutz, K., 1913, Zur Kenntnis der Thysanopterenfauna von Ceylon. Sitz.-Ber. K. Akad. Wiss., 122 (7): 991–1089.

Trybom, F., 1911, Physapoden aus Ägypten und dem Sudan, pp. 1–16: In Results of the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Egypt and the White Nile (1900–1901) under the direction of L. A.Jagerskiold Pt IV.

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2014, New records of thrips (Thysanoptera, Terebrantia, Thripidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India. Rec. Zool. Surv. India., 114 (Part-4) : 591–598.

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.