Megalurothrips usitatus (Bagnall)
Nomenclature
Physothrips usitatus Bagnall, 1913: 293.
Frankliniella nigricornis Schmutz, 1913: 1020.
Frankliniella obscuricornis Schmutz, 1913: 1022.
Frankliniella vitata Schmutz, 1913: 1023.
Physothrips cinctipennis Bagnall, 1916: 217.
Physothrips mjobergi Karny, 1920: 37.
Taeniothrips longistylus Karny, 1922: 99.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body brown; antennal segment III yellow to light brown; 2 stout dark apical setae on hind tibiae; brown forewing with pale base and a sub apical pale area. Antennae 8 segmented, III–IV each with a forked sense cone. Head with ocellar pair III on anterior margins of ocellar triangle. Pronotum with 3 pairs of posteromarginal setae. Metanotum with feeble sculpture; median setae at anterior margin. Forewing first vein with uniform setae row before sub apical gap followed by 2 setae. Abdominal tergite VIII with posteromarginal comb having slender microtrichia but absent medially. Abdominal sternites without discal setae; VII with median pair of marginal setae anterior to margin.
Male macroptera: Similar to female but paler and smaller; abdominal tergite IX posterior margin lacking paired setiform processes, posterolaterally with a pair of short, stout setae; abdominal sternites without pore glands.
specimens collected on
Arachis hypogaea (Fabaceae), Cajanus cajan (Fabaceae), Crotolaria sp. (Fabaceae), Dolichos lablab (Fabaceae), Lablab purpureus (Fabaceae) (Tyagi & Kumar, 2008; Rachana & Varatharajan, 2017; Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Delhi, Karnataka, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (Bhatti, 1990; Tyagi & Kumar, 2008)
References
Bagnall, R. S., 1913, Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera I. Ann. Magazine Natural History, 12 (8): 290–299.
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.
Karny, H., 1920, Nova Australska Thysanoptera, jez nashbiral Mjöberg. Casopis Ceskoslovenské spolecnosti entomologiscké., 17: 35–44.
Karny, H., 1922, Thysanoptera from Siam and Indo-China. Journal of the Siam Society., 16: 91–153.
Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.
Rachana, R.R. and Varatharajan, R., 2017, Additions to the thrips (Thysanoptera) fauna of Odisha, India. J. Appl. Natural Sci., 9 (3): 1522–1524.
Schmutz, K., 1913, Zur Kenntnis der Thysanopterenfauna von Ceylon. Sitz.-Ber. K. Akad. Wiss., 122 (7): 991–1089.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2008, Checklist of Terebrantia (Thysanoptera) recorded from Karnataka. Biosystematica, 2(1): 41 – 48.
