Terebrantian thrips of India

Bregmatothrips ramani Rachana & Varatharajan, 2017

Female macroptera: Head and thorax brown, pterothorax often paler laterally; abdominal segments I–V yellowish brown, VI–X blackish brown; all legs yellow; fore wing colourless. Head slightly projecting in front of compound eyes; ocellar setae III more than twice the length of ocellar setae II, arising on inner margins of ocellar triangle, almost on the inner tangents between the fore and hind ocelli; post ocular setae arising in a row parallel to eye margin, pair III distinctly longer than others, more than half as long as ocellar setae III; mouth cone long, extending between fore coxae. Antennae 7-segmented, I with two dorso-apical setae, III and IV each with a forked sense cone. Pronotum slightly widened towards base; two pairs of well developed posteroangular setae; four pairs of posteromarginal setae. Metanotum with very faint reticulate sculpture medially, longitudinal striations laterally; median pair of setae near anterior margin; campaniform sensilla absent. Fore wing first vein with 8 basal setae, 1 at middle and 2 distally; second vein with 9–11 setae. Fore tibia with a stout spine at apex. Abdominal tergites I–VIII with pale translucent craspedum. Abdominal sternites without discal setae; median pair of setae on VII arise on posterior margin.

Unknown

Andaman Islands (Rachana and Varatharajan, 2017)

Rachana, R.R. and Varatharajan, R., 2017, A new species of the genus Bregmatothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from the Anadaman Islands of India. Zootaxa, 4317 (3): 597 – 600.