A new species of Hydatothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from India with one new record Author Rachana, R. R. 0000-0002-0343-6825 Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterisation, National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (ICAR-NBAIR), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. & vavarachana @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0343 - 6825 vavarachana@gmail.com Author Amarendra, B. 0000-0002-2937-4837 Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterisation, National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (ICAR-NBAIR), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. & bellapuamarendra 5 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2937 - 4837 bellapuamarendra5@gmail.com Author Vanitha, K. 0000-0002-1081-6885 Division of Crop Protection, Directorate of Cashew Research (ICAR-DCR), Puttur, Karnataka, India & vanis 102 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1081 - 6885 vanis102@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2023 2023-07-27 5319 4 589 594 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5319.4.9 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.4.9 ab9e72de-bb1e-4b80-92cc-a6ea732caa07 1175-5326 8221937 2EF79AC8-7EDD-4A31-B704-85677F3731B8 Dendrothrips glynn Mound ( Figs 16–25 ) Described from Australia from tree flowers ( Mound 1999 ), this species of Dendrothripinae is here recorded from India for the first time based on the following specimens: Tamil Nadu , Dindigal , Thadiyankudisai , 6 females , collected in yellow pan traps , 27.i.2017 (Gandhi Gracy R .). FIGURES 16–25. Dendrothrips glynn Mound. (16) Female; (17) Antenna; (18) Meso and metanotum; (19) Abdominal tergites II–VII; (20) Pronotum; (21) Head, dorsal; (22) Abdominal tergites IX–X; (23) Abdominal tergite VIII; (24) Abdominal sternite VII; (25) Fore wing. Diagnosis : Head, pronotum and pterothorax light brown ( Fig. 16 ), abdomen yellow with two pairs of small brown spots on tergites II–VII ( Fig. 19 ); fore wing pale, with three short, transverse light brown bands, apex weakly shaded ( Fig. 25 ). Head transverse, reticulate within ocellar triangle with internal markings; ocellar pair III outside ocellar triangle anterior to hind ocelli ( Fig. 21 ). Antennae 7- segmented ( Fig. 17 ). Pronotum irregularly reticulate with internal markings ( Fig. 20 ). Metanotum reticulate with minute tubercles inside ( Fig. 18 ). Abdominal tergites each with anterior reticulations and posterior longitudinal ridges; VIII with a few median slender microtrichia ( Fig. 23 ). Sternites reticulate ( Fig. 24 ).