Euphysothrips minozzii Bagnall
Nomenclature
Euphysothrips minozzii Bagnall, 1926: 646
Anaphothrips fungivora Ramakrishna, 1928: 268
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body yellow infused brown, abdominal tergites IX–X brown; antennal segments I–III brownish yellow, IV brown with pale base, V–VII brown, brown apically, VIII pale brown; forewing pale with median light brown band, apex pale, clavus pale. Head with brownish tinge laterally; ocellar setae III just behind the anterior ocellus; 4 postocular setae pairs. Antennae 8-segmented, III and IV each with a forked sense cone. Pronotum yellow shaded brown medially, posteromarginal setae 6 pairs. Metanotum reticulated medially, longitudinally striated laterally campaniform sensilla absent; median setae pair well behind anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 6 basal, 1 median and 2 distal setae, longest setae not longer than the wing width, second vein with 4 setae. Abdominal tergites II–VII with well developed craspedum; VIII with posteromarginal comb of long microtrichia; IX with anterior pair of campaniform sensilla; X with incomplete dorsal split. Abdominal sternites without discal setae and craspedum, II with 2 posteromarginal setae pairs, III–VII each with 3 posteromarginal setae pairs, median setae on VII arise a little ahead of the posterior margin.
Male macroptera: Similar to female but smaller and have uniform yellow body. Abdominal sternites III–VII with transverse pore gland.
specimens collected on
Arachis hypogaea (Fabaceae) (Rachana et al., 2023)Distribution
Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu (Ramakrishna, 1928; Rachana et al., 2023)
References
Bagnall, R.S., 1926. Contributions towards a knowledge of the European Thysanoptera. I. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 18(9): 641–661.
Rachana, R.R., Rudramuni, T., Gandhi, G.R. and Swathi, R.S., 2023. New record of two thrips species (Thysanoptera: Terebrantia: Thripidae) from India along with redescription, host association and DNA barcode of Euphysothrips minozzii Bagnall. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 43(5): 1675–1681.
Ramakrishna, A., 1928. A contribution to our knowledge of Thysanoptera of India. Mem. Dept. Agri. India (Ent. Ser.)., 10(7): 217–316.
