Thrips razanii Ng, Eow and Mound
Nomenclature
Thrips razanii Ng, Eow and Mound, 2010: 65.
Diagnosis
Female macroptera: Body brown, antennal segments brown, including segment III; forewing uniformly brown. Antennae 8-segmented. Head with faint transverse striations in front of first ocellus, ocellar area smooth; ocellar setae III on or just outside lateral margins of ocellar triangle; postocular seta II smaller than I and III. Metanotum longitudinally striate laterally, transversely striate on anteriorly; median setae at anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 3 discal setae. Abdominal tergite VIII with complete posteromarginal comb but with short and irregular microtrichia; tergite IX with 2 pairs of campaniform sensilla, median setae extending beyond apex of X. Pleurotergites without discal setae. Sternites II–VII with discal setae; sternite VII with S1 seta arising in front of posterior margin.
Male macroptera: Smaller than female. Forewing with feebly pale base and abdominal sternites III–VII with wide transverse pore glands.
specimens collected on
Ixora coccinea L. (Rubiaceae) (Rachana et al., 2025)
Distribution
Kerala (Rachana et al., 2025)
References
Ng, Y.F., Eow, L.X., Mound, L.A. 2010. A new species of genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripinae) from flowers in Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa. 1020: 1–64.
Rachana, R.R., Amarendra, B., Girish, K. S., Vanitha, K., Sujith, K.M., Safna, M., Gracy, R.G., Nagarjuna Reddy, K.V., Jayalakshmi, N.H., Berin, P. and Sushil, S.N. 2025. First records of four Thysanoptera species in India and their putative host associations. Oriental Insects. doi: 10.1080/00305316.2025.2497872.
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