Terebrantian thrips of India

Taeniothrips melanicornis Shumsher, 1946: 179.

Taeniothrips ipomoeae Zhang, 1981: 324.

Female macroptera: Body yellow with light brown markings in ocellar triangle, medially on abdominal tergites II–VIII; antennae brown; legs yellow; forewing brown. Antennae 8 segmented; paired dorso-apical setae on I absent; III–IV with a forked and slender sensorium. Head with ocellar setae pair III longer than side of ocellar triangle, arising between posterior ocelli. Pronotum with 2 pairs of long posteroangular setae, 2 pairs of posteromarginal setae. Metanotum feebly reticulate medially, median setae behind anterior margin; campaniform sensilla absent. Forewing first vein with 5 basal setae and 3 distal setae, second vein with 4–5 setae. Abdominal tergites I–II and lateral areas of III–VIII with transverse striae; posteromarginal comb absent on VIII. Abdominal sternites withoutdiscal setae, median setae on VII in front of margin.
Male macroptera: Similar to female but smaller in size; abdominal tergite IX with 2 median stout thorn-like setae; abdominal sternite VII with a small median pore plate.

Arundo donax (Poaceae), Brassica campestris (Brassicaceae), Cassia fistula (Fabaceae), Ipomoea sp. (Convolvulaceae), Jasminum sp. (Oleaceae), Lantana camara (Verbenaceae), Morus alba (Moraceae), Pogostemon cablin (Lamiaceae), Solanum tuberosum (Solanaceae), Premna obtusifolia (Lamiaceae) (Ananthakrishnan, 1968; Tyagi & Kumar, 2008; 2014; Rachana, 2020)

Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1990; Tyagi & Kumar, 2014; 2016) 

Ananthakrishnan, T. N., 1968, Indian Terebrantia - IV. Zool. Anz., 180: 258–268.

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

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

Shumsher, S., 1946, Studies on the systematics of Indian Terebrantia. Indian J. Entomol., 7: 147–188.

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

Zhang, W., 1981, New species of Taeniothrips from China (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica., 6 (3): 324–327.