Scolothrips rhagebianus Priesner
Nomenclature
Scolothrips rhagebianus Priesner, 1950: 46.
Scolothrips indicus Priesner, 1950: 48
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body yellow, pale grey markings on pronotum laterally and metascutellum, prominent grey markings on abdominal tergites; pale forewing with 2 transverse dark bands. Antennae 8 segmented, III–IV each having a long forked sense cone. Head with long ocellar setae pair III, arising on anterior margins of ocellar triangle; postocular setae small, pair I close together behind hind ocelli. Pronotum with 6 pairs of very long setae; one pair of discal setae on posterior third. Metanotum with feeble reticulatiom; median setae arising at anterior margin. Forewing first and second veins each with 5–7 long setae. Abdominal tergite VIII without posteromarginal comb. Abdominal sternites without discal setae, setae S1 on VII arising anterior to posterior margin.
specimens collected on
Morus indica (Moraceae), Punica granatum (Punicaceae), Saccharum officinarum (Poaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Rachana, 2020)
Distribution
Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1990; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016)
References
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.
Priesner, H., 1950, Studies on the genus Scolothrips (Thysanoptera). Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d'Egypte., 34: 39–68.
Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.
Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98.
