Megalurothrips distalis (Karny)
Nomenclature
Taeniothrips distalis Karny, 1913: 122.
Physothrips brunneicornis Bagnall, 1916: 218.
Taeniothrips infernalis Priesner, 1938: 472.
Taeniothrips morosus Priesner, 1938: 476.
Taeniothrips ditissimus Ananthakrishnan and Jagadish, 1966: 250.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body brown. Head with interocellar setae 3–4 times as long as distance between their bases. Antennae brown; segments III and IV each with a forked sense cone. Pronotum with transverse striations; anteroangular setae prominent; subequal posteroangular setae. Forewing brown, pale sub basally and sub apically; first vein with 2 distal setae. Metanotum transversely reticulate on anterior half, reticulate on posterior half; lateral longitudinally striate; median setae placed at anterior margin. Abdominal tergite VIII with posteromarginal comb, interrupted medially. Abdominal sternite VII with median posteromarginal setae pair anterior to posterior margin.
specimens collected on
Cajanus cajan (Fabaceae), Crocus sativus. (Iridaceae), Crotalaria juncea (Fabaceae), Dahlia sp. (Asteraceae), Eriobotrya japonica (Rosaceae), Lablab purpureus (Fabaceae), Medicago sativa (Fabaceae), Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabaceae), Pongamia glabra (Fabaceae), Rosa sp. (Rosaceae), Zinnia sp. (Asteraceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Akhtar & Azim, 2013; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018; Rachana et al., 2020; Sandeep Singh & Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Andaman Island, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1990; Akhtar & Azim, 2013; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018; Rachana et al., 2020; Sandeep Singh & Rachana, 2020)
References
Akhtar, N. and Azim, M.N., 2013. A preliminary survey of thrips (Thysanoptera) from Kashmir Himalaya. Halteres, 4: 15–18.
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Jagadish, A., 1966, Coffee and tea infesting thrips from Anamalai (S. India) with description of two new species of Taeniothrips Serville. Indian. J. Entomol., 28: 250–257.
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Sen, S., 1980, Taxonomy of Indian thysanoptera. Zool. Surv. India. (Handb. Ser.)., 1:1–234.
Bagnall, R. S., 1916, Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera VII. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 17(8): 213–223.
Bhatti, J. S., 1990, Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (J. Pure Appl. Zool.)., 2: 205–352.
Johnson, T. and Varatharajan, R., 2018, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna from the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. Halteres., 9: 143–150.
Karny, H., 1913, Thysanoptera von Japan. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 79: 122–128.
Priesner, H., 1938, Materialen zu einer Revision der Taeniothrips-Arten (Thysanoptera) des indomalayischen Faunengebietes. Treubia., 16: 469–526.
Rachana, R.R., Rayar, S.G., Giraddi, R.S., Kalappanavar, I.K. and Alagundagi, S.C., 2020, New records of terebrantian thrips from Karnataka, India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 8(4):2189–2192.
Singh, S. and Rachana, R. R., 2020, Diversity and population dynamics of thrips species on horticultural crops in Punjab. Indian Journal of Horticulture, 77(4): 647–654.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.
