Ayyaria chaetophora Karny
Nomenclature
Ayyaria chaetophora Karny, 1926: 193.
Bussothrips claratibia Moulton, 1935: 475.
Parafrankliniella fasciatus Kurosawa, 1937: 271.
Parafrankliniella subfasciatus Kurosawa, 1968: 24
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body dark brown, mid and hind tibiae yellow; forewing white having two dark cross bands. Antennae 8 segmented; III–IV with a long and slender forked sensorium. Head with 3 pairs of ocellar setae, pair III longer than side of ocellar triangle, arising between anterior margins of posterior ocelli. Pronotum with only 1 pair of anteromarginal setae, 2 pairs of long posteroangular setae; pronotal surface hardly with any sculpture. Metanotum smooth medially without any sculpture, median setae behind anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 3 distal setae, second vein with 3 setae. Abdominal tergites covered with equiangular reticulation; long and regular posteromarginal comb on VIII. Abdominal sternites with median setae on VII in front of margin.
specimens collected on
Arachis hypogaea (Fabaceae), Corchorus sp. (Malvaceae), Dolichos lablab (Fabaceae), Grass (Poaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Sida sp. (Malvaceae), Tagetes erecta L. (Asteraceae), Vigna radiata (Fabaceae), Vigna unguiculata (Fabaceae) (Ananthakrishnan & Sen, 1980; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018; Rachana, 2020)Distribution
Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1990; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018)
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.
Johnson, T. and Varatharajan, R., 2018, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna from the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. Halteres., 9: 143–150.
Karny, H., 1926, Studies on Indian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India Entomology Series, 9: 187–239.
Kurosawa, 1937, Descriptions of four new thrips in Japan. Kontyu Tokyo., 11: 266–275.
Kurosawa, 1968, Thysanoptera of Japan. Insecta Matsumurana Suppl., 4: 1–94.
Moulton, D., 1935, A new thrips on cotton. Philippine Journal of Agriculture., 6:
475–477.
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.
