Thrips palmi Karny
Nomenclature
Thrips palmi Karny, 1925: 10.
Thrips clarus Moulton, 1928: 294.
Thrips leucadophilus Priesner, 1936: 91.
Thrips gossypicola Ramakrishna and Margabandhu, 1939: 41.
Chloethrips (Mictothrips) aureus Ananthakrishnan and Jagadish, 1967: 381
Thrips gracilis Ananthakrishnan and Jagadish, 1968: 361.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body and legs yellow; forewing pale. Head with ocellar setae pair III small, arising outside ocellar triangle; postocular setae pair I slightly longer than ocellar setae III. Antennae 7 segmented. Pronotum with 3 pairs of posteromarginal setae. Metanotum with irregular longitudinal lines converging to posterior margin, with anteriorly curving transverse lines; median setae arising well behind anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 3 distal setae, second vein with 11–15 setae. Abdominal tergite II with 4 marginal setae laterally; VIII with complete comb; discal setae on pleurotergites absent. Abdominal sternite VII with median setae pair arising in front of margin; discal setae on sternites absent.
Male macroptera: Smaller than female; abdominal sternites III–VII with transverse glandular area.
specimens collected on
Polyphagous
Distribution
Widely distributed
References
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Jagadish, A., 1967, Studies on the genus Chloethrips Priesner from India. Zool. Anz., 178: 374–388.
Ananthakrishnan, T. N. and Jagadish, A., 1968, Studies on the species of the genus Thrips from India - II. Entomol. Z., 15: 359–365.
Karny, H., 1925, Die an Tabak auf Java und Sumatra angetroffenen Blasenfüsser. Bulletin van het deli Proefstation te Medan., 23: 1–55.
Moulton, D., 1928, New Thysanoptera from Formosa. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa., 18:287–328.
Priesner, H., 1936, On some further new Thysanoptera from the Sudan. Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d'Egypte., 20: 83–104.
Ramakrishna, T.V. and Margabandhu, V., 1939, Notes on Indian Thysanoptera with descriptions of new species. Indian J. Entomol., 1: 35–48.
