A new species of the genus Tameothrips Bhatti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with four new records of thrips from India
Author
Tyagi, Kaomud
Author
Kumar, Vikas
Author
Chauhan, Neena
text
Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4007.2.11
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Helionothrips aino
Ishida
Helionothrips aino
Ishida,1931
, 34–36.
The genus
Helionothrips
comprises 27 species worldwide (ThripsWiki 2015), of which 4 species are known from
India
(
Bhatti 1990
).
H. aino
is the fifth species recorded from
India
. This species can be distinguished from
H
.
ananthakrishnani
Wilson
by the shorter and smaller constricted apex of antennal segment IV in comparison to the apex of antennal segment III.
Diagnosis
. Female macroptera. Body blackish brown (
Fig. 6
). Antennal segments I–V and basal 2/3 of VI yellow, apical 1/3 of VI and VII–VIII light brown. All femora brown, all tibiae brown with yellow apex, tarsi yellow. Fore wing brown at base with sub-basal white band, brown at fork of vein and at distal end, distal half of wing pale brown.
Material studied.
INDIA
, Himachal Pradesh, Mandi,
4 females
,
5 males
on
Colocasia
leaves,
17.x.2013
, (Reg. No. 6508/H17 to 6516/H17), Tyagi & Kumar. Ten females and
15 males
are not mounted and preserved at - 20o C for molecular work.