Terebrantian thrips of India

Scolothrips asura Ramakrishna and Margabandhu, 1931: 1035.

Scolothrips quadrinotata Han and Zhang, 1982: 53.

Female macroptera: Body brown; legs, prothorax and abdominal segments III–V yellow,  IX–X brown; forewing having two dark transverse bands including clavus. Antennae 8 segmented; III–IV each with a forked sense cone. Head with ocellar setae III long, arising within ocellar triangle, 2 pairs of postocular setae behind ocelli. Pronotum transverse with a few transverse lines; discal setae absent; 6 pairs of long major setae excluding two pairs of posteroangular setae. Metanotum striate medially and irregularly reticulate anteriorly; median setae pair at anterior margin, wide apart. Forewing with pointed apex; costal setae long, costal cilia present only medially; first vein with 8 long setae irregularly arranged in a continuous row, second vein with 4 long setae. Abdominal tergite VIII without marginal comb. Abdominal sternites without discal setae.

Morus alba (Moraceae), Morus indica (Moraceae), Musa sp. (Musaceae), Saraca asoca  (Fabaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Tyagi & Kumar, 2008, Rachana, 2020)

Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1990; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016)

Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Sen, S., 1980, Taxonomy of Indian thysanoptera. Zool. Surv. India. (Handb. Ser.)., 1:1–234.

Bhatti, J. S., 1990, Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (J. Pure Appl. Zool.)., 2: 205–352.

Han, Y. F. and Zhang, G. X., 1982, Descriptions of two new species of Scolothrips Hinds and an undescribed male of S. takahashii Priesner from China (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Zool. Res., 3: 53–65.

Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.

Ramakrishna, T.V. and Margabandhu, V., 1931, Notes on Indian Thysanoptera with brief descriptions of new species. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 34: 1025–1040.

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2008, Checklist of Terebrantia (Thysanoptera) recorded from Karnataka. Biosystematica, 2(1): 41–48.

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.