Terebrantian thrips of India

Scirtothrips mangiferae Priesner, 1932: 143.

Female macroptera: Body yellow without median shading on abdominal tergites, antecostal ridges on tergites and sternites pale; forewing transparent. Ocellar setae pair III anterior to tangent between anterior margins of posterior ocelli. Pronotum striate closely, posteromarginal setae S2 about 1.6 as long as S1. Metanotum strongly reticulate; median pair of setae behind anterior margin. Forewing second vein with 3–5 setae; posteromarginal fringe cilia wavy. Abdominal tergites V–VII with 4 setae on each lateral microtrichial field, VIII–IX with numerous median microtrichia; VIII with complete posteromarginal comb. Abdominal sternites without median microtrichia.

Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae) (Tyagi & Kumar, 2008)

Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh (Tyagi & Kumar, 2014; 2016)

Priesner, H., 1932, Preliminary notes on Scirtothrips in Egypt, with key and catalogue of the Scirtothrips species of the world. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Egypte., 16: 141–155.

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

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2014, New records of thrips (Thysanoptera, Terebrantia, Thripidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India. Rec. Zool. Surv. India., 114
(Part-4) : 591–598.

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