Terebrantian thrips of India

Aeolothrips vespiformis Crawford, D.L., 1909: 109.

Female macroptera: Body, legs and antennae brown, wasp like constricted waist, abdominal segments II–III yellow with brown anterior margins, X yellowish contrary to IX; forewing banded, brown with a small sub-basal pale area, a median broad pale area, a sub-apical pale area. Head broadly recessed into pronotal anterior margin. Antennae 9 segmented; segment III about 8 times as long as wide with an elongated sensory area made of irregular scallops. Metanotum without sculpture medially. Abdominal sternites IV–VI each with two pairs of marginal setae and two pairs of setae laterally on discal area.

Camellia sinensis (Theaceae); Persea americana (Lauraceae); Sesbania sp., (Fabaceae); Setaria sp. (Poaceae); Solanum melongena (Solanaceae); Tagetes erecta (Asteraceae) (Tyagi et al., 2008; Varatharajan et al., 2018; Rachana, 2020)

Assam, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu (Tyagi et al., 2008; Tyagi & Kumar, 2016; Varatharajan et al., 2018)

Crawford, D. L., 1909, On some Thysanoptera from Mexico and the South. Pomona College Journal of Entomology., 1: 109–119.

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

Tyagi K., Kumar V. and Mound L. A., 2008, Sexual dimorphism among Thysanoptera Terebrantia, with a new species from Malaysia and remarkable species from India in Aeolothripidae and Thripidae. Insect Syst. Evol., 39(2): 155–170.

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2016, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) of India – An updated checklist. Halteres., 7: 64–98

Varatharajan, R., Singh, K.N. and Rachana, R.R., 2018,On the collections of predatory thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) from NE India. Journal of Biological Control, pp.8–13.