Plesiothrips perplexus (Beach)
Nomenclature
Sericothrips perplexus Beach, 1896: 216.
Thrips panicus Moulton, 1929: 61.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body bicoloured, head and thorax brown but abdomen light brown or yellow with dark apex; legs yellow; forewing light brown with clear basal quarter. Antennae 7 segmented; III and IV each with a forked sensorium. Head projecting in front of eyes; ocellar pair III just in front of hind ocelli and as long as side of ocellar triangle. Pronotum with 2–3 posteromarginal setae pairs. Metanotum without median sculpture; median setae small, well behind anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 2 distal setae; second vein with 10 setae. Abdominal tergite VIII with a few lateral small microtrichia posterior margin. Abdominal sternites without accessory setae, median marginal setae pair on sternite VII close to margin.
specimens collected on
Grass (Rachana et al., 2020)
Distribution
Karnataka, Tripura (Rachana, 2017; Rachana et al., 2020)
References
Beach, A. M., 1896, Contributions to a knowledge of the Thripidae of Iowa. In Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 3: 214–227.
Moulton, D., 1929, New Thysanoptera from Cuba. The Florida Entomologist, 13(4): 61–66.
Rachana, R. R., 2017, First report of the new world thrips genus Plesiothrips Hood (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India with a note on Plesiothrips perplexus (Beach). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 5(3):428–429.
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.
