Rhamphothrips tenuirostris (Karny)

Rhamphothrips tenuirostris (Karny) View in CoL

( Figs 11–23 View FIGURES 11–16 View FIGURES 17–23 )

Described from Java, Indonesia on flowers and galls of Macaranga tanarius ( Euphorbiaceae ) ( Karny 1912, 1913), this species of Thripinae is here recorded from India for the first time based on the following specimens: Karnataka, Puttur, 6 females and 1 male, collected on Cenchrus sp. ( Poaceae ) in Anacardium occidentale plantations, 06.iii.2025 (Vanitha, K.).

Female macroptera. Body, legs and forewing uniform yellow ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 11–16 ); distal half of abdominal segment X dark brown ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 17–23 ). Foretibia apically bearing 2 teeth, each of which leading to a slender seta ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 17–23 ); inner margin of foretarsus with weak short tooth. Ocellar seta I with only one seta ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 11–16 ); pronotal surface smooth ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 11–16 ); prosternal ferna with barb like structures. Metanotum longitudinally striate; median pair of setae situated away from anterior margin ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 17–23 ); campaniform sensilla present. Forewing first vein with 3 distal setae; second vein with 4 setae ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 11–16 ). Abdominal tergites VI–VIII with S4 setae reduced; sternite VII with S1 and S2 setae rudimentary ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 17–23 ), sternites II–VI with craspedum, without discal setae.

Male macroptera. Body colour similar to female ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 11–16 ). Fore coxa on inner posterior margin bearing a hook like tubercle. Mesosternum with a cluster of 12–14 dark robust, thorn like setae on either side ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 17–23 ). Abdominal tergal craspeda III–VIII with laterally oriented teeth on the sides of posteromarginal flanges ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 17–23 ), mid-dorsal setae on tergite IX placed on the pair of protrubences along with a group of scallop like striations present between them ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 17–23 ); sternites without pore plates.