Karnyothrips mucidus (Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish)

Karnyothrips mucidus (Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish) View in CoL

Xylaplothrips mucidus Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish, 1971 View in CoL ; 260–261.

Karnyothrips mucidus (Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish) View in CoL ; Pitkin, 1976: 264.

This species was described from Vyithri (Wynaad), India, based on macropterous two females and one male collected from dry twigs. The bicolored pattern of this species is somewhat similar to K. brevipilosus sp. n. and K. melaleucus View in CoL . However, those two species have two sense cones on antennal segments III and IV and sharply pointed tergite IX S1 setae, whereas mucidus View in CoL has one and three sense cones on segments III and IV respectively and tergite IX S1 setae expanded. Specimens of this species have not been available for this study and the following diagnosis is based on the original description and Pitkin (1976), but the condition of antennal segment VIII and the pro- and mesosternal plates is uncertain.

Diagnos is. Bicolorous species; head, thorax and tube brown, abdomen yellow, but posterior half of segment IX brown; fore femora brown with apices yellow, fore tibiae yellowish brown; antennal segments I and IV–VIII brown, segment II yellowish at apical half, segment III yellow. Antennal segments III and IV with one (0+1) and three (1+2 +1) sense cones respectively. Maxillary stylets 1/5–1/4 of head width apart. Notopleural sutures complete. Tergite IX S1 setae expanded, shorter than tube, S2 pointed, almost as long as tube. Tube a little shorter than 0.6 times as long as head; terminal setae about 1.3 times as long as tube.