Thrips atactus Bhatti
Nomenclature
Thrips atactus Bhatti, 1967: 17
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body bicoloured. Head yellow, weakly brown on cheeks; ocellar setae III positioned on the anterior margins of ocellar triangle. Antennae 7 segmented. Pronotum yellow. Pteronotum dark. Metanotum longitudinally sculptured in posterior half; median pair far behind of anterior margin. Legs yellow. Forewing with a dark transverse cross band beyond basal third; first vein with 7 basal setae and 3 discal setae; clavus greyish brown. Abdomen primarily dark brown; tergite I yellow, posterior margins and lateral sides shaded; II–VI dark greyish brown; VII median brown in proximal two thirds; VIII mostly yellow, proximal one third shaded; IX yellow, shaded dorsally towards apex; X yellow, shaded faintly less than distal half; antecostal lines on II–VI deep black; II–VIII unsculptured medially; VIII with complete posteromarginal comb. Abdominal sternites and pleurotergites without accessory setae.
specimens collected on
Clerodendrum splendens (Verbenaceae), Wedelia sp. (Asteraceae) (Bhatti, 1967; Rachana et al., 2020)
Distribution
Karnataka, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1967; Rachana et al., 2020)
References
Bhatti, J. S., 1967, Thysanoptera nova Indica. Published by the author, Delhi pp. 1–24.
Rachana, R.R., Rayar, S.G., Giraddi, R.S., Kalappanavar, I.K. and Alagundagi, S.C., 2020, New records of terebrantian thrips from Karnataka, India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 8(4):2189–2192.
