Plutonothrips cus (Bhatti)
Nomenclature
Arathrips cus Bhatti, 1967: 16.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body dark brown. Head with short interocellar setae within the ocellar triangle; postocular setae not uniserial, pair II displaced to median. Antennae 8 segmented. Metanotum with median setae at anterior margin. Legs yellow, except the brown border of fore and mid femora and the distal two-thirds of hind femur. Forewing pale. Abdominal tergites and sternites with well developed, continuous posteromarginal flange.
specimens collected on
Ficus benghalensis (Moraceae), Cynodon dactylon (Poaceae) (Bhatti, 1997; Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh (Bhatti, 1990; Rachana & Varatharajan, 2016)
References
Bhatti, J. S., 1967, Thysanoptera nova Indica. Published by the author, Delhi pp. 1–24.
Bhatti, J. S., 1990, Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (J. Pure Appl. Zool.)., 2: 205–352.
Bhatti, J. S., 1997, Thysanoptera. In: Fauna of Delhi, State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Dehradun, pp. 291–324.
Rachana, R. R. and Varatharajan, R., 2016, Additions to the terebrantian (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna of Kerala, India. J. Appl. Natural Sci., 8 (3):
1507–1509.
Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad
