Scirtothrips bispinosus (Bagnall)
Nomenclature
Dendrothrips bispinosus Bagnall, 1924: 455.
Scirtothrips sweetmani Bianchi, 1965: 23.
Scirtothrips titschacki Ananthakrishnan, 1965: 24.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body brown; forewing uniformly shaded. Head with transverse reticulations on inter ocellar region; ocellar setae pair III arise between posterior ocelli. Pronotum with transverse striations, posteromarginal setae S2 longer than S1. Metanotal sculpture reticulate; median pair of setae behind anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 7 setae; second vein with 1 seta; posteromarginal fringe cilia straight. Hind tibia with a long, strong spine much anterior to posterior margin. Abdominal tergites II–VIII with dark antecostal ridge; tergal microtrichial fields with 3 discal setae in transverse line; VIII with complete posteromarginal comb. Abdominal sternites with microtrichial fields laterally.
specimens collected on
Camellia sinensis (Theaceae); Coffea sp. (Rubiaceae); Malus sp. (Rosaceae) (Bagnall, 1924; Bianchi, 1965; Sandeep & Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu (Bhatti, 1990; Sandeep & Rachana, 2020)
References
Ananthakrishnan, T. N., 1965, Indian Terebrantia - II (Thysanoptera: Insecta). Bull. Entomol., 6: 15–29.
Bagnall, R. S., 1924, On a new injurious thrips affecting tea in India. Bull. Entomol. Res., 14: 455.
Bhatti, J. S., 1990, Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (J. Pure Appl. Zool.)., 2: 205–352.
Bianchi, F. A., 1965, A new Scirtothrips on coffee in India. Curr. Sci., 34: 23–25.
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.
