Dendrothrips glynn Mound

Rachana, R. R., Amarendra, B. & Vanitha, K., 2023, A new species of Hydatothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from India with one new record, Zootaxa 5319 (4), pp. 589-594 : 593

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.).

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 ).

Figures

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.