Terebrantian thrips of India

Isoneurothrips orientalis Bagnall, 1915: 593.

Thrips setipennis Steinweden and Moulton, 1930: 25.

Thrips hispidipennis Hood, 1932: 122.

Female macroptera: Body dark brown; forewing including clavus brown. Head weakly reticulate within ocellar triangle. Ocellar setae III on margin of ocellar triangle. Postocular setae I and III shorter than ocellar setae III, II and IV minute. Antennae 7 segmented. Pronotum sculptured with transverse striae; posteroangular setae I shorter than II; posteromarginal setae 3 pairs. Metanotum reticulate  with inner wrinkles; median pair of setae far from anterior margin. Forewing first vein without long gap in setae row, 7–11 irregularly spaced setae on distal half; clavus with subapical seta longer than apical seta. Abdominal tergite II with 4 lateral marginal setae; VIII without comb medially, small microtrichia present laterally; sternites III–VI usually with 1–6 discal setae; VII without discal setae and S1 setae far from posterior margin; pleurotergites without discal setae.

Jasminum officinale (Oleaeae), Jasminum sambac (Oleaceae), Lantana camara (Verbenaceae), Vitex negundo (Lamiaceae) (Bhatti, 1997; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018; Rachana, 2020)

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1990; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018)

Bagnall, R. S., 1915, Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera VI. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 15(8): 588–597.

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

Bhatti, J. S., 1997, Thysanoptera. In: Fauna of Delhi, State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Dehradun, pp. 291–324.

Hood, J. D. 1932, New species of the genus Thrips from Central Africa and Egypt. Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d'Egypte., 1932: 115–140.

Johnson, T. and Varatharajan, R., 2018, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna from the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. Halteres., 9: 143–150.

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

Steinweden, J.B. and Moulton, D., 1930, Thysanoptera from China. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of the Fukien Christian University, 3: 19–30.

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