Jammuthrips, Pal & Kumar & Panjaliya & Tyagi, 2022

Pal, Shash, Kumar, Vikas, Panjaliya, Rakesh Kumar & Tyagi, Kaomud, 2022, A new genus and species of subfamily Dendrothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India, Zootaxa 5175 (3), pp. 383-388 : 384

Jammuthrips gen. n.

( Figs 1 –12)

Type species: Jammuthrips paikulensis sp.n.

Female macroptera. Head broader than long, genae short, slightly concave, with two pairs of ocellar setae, pair I absent, pair III arising outside the ocellar triangle, without postocular setae and without prominent sculpture ( Figs 3 , 8 ); eyes slightly enlarged ventrally, without pigmented facets; mouth cone long and cone shaped, extending to mesosternum; maxillary palps long, 2-segmented ( Figs 2 , 10 ). Antennae 8-segmented, III with simple and IV with forked sense cone ( Fig. 9 ). Pronotum wider than long, with irregular reticulations, reticles with internal wrinkles, with one pair of long anteromarginal setae, and two pairs of posteroangular setae, discal setae long, subequal to or shorter than posteroangular setae ( Figs 5 , 8 ); ferna divided ( Fig. 10 ). Mesonotum without anteromedian campaniform sensilla; median pair of setae far ahead of posterior margin, mesothoracic sternoplural sutures present; metanotum with reticulate sculpture, reticles with wrinkles, median pair of setae located far behind the anterior margin, submedian pair located near anterior margin, without campaniform sensilla ( Fig. 11 ). Fore wing posterior margin straight, surface uniformly covered with microtrichia, costal setae small, first vein setae slightly longer than costal setae, apex bluntly rounded, with one small apical seta ( Figs 6, 7 ); anteromarginal cilia arise far behind the anterior margin; posterior fringes straight. All tarsi 1-segmented; hind tarsi elongate, longer than fore and mid tarsi. Median setae on tergites I–VIII long and close together, distance between them less than their length, tergite I with small median setae; lateral thirds of tergites II–VIII with reticulation; reticles with wrinkles, VIII without posteromarginal comb of microtrichia (Fig. 12). Sternites III–VII each with three pairs of small marginal setae.

Comments. This new genus is similar to the genus Dendrothrips Uzel in the following character states: fore wing anteromarginal cilia arising far behind anterior margin, prosternal ferna divided, maxillary palps 2-segmented and fore wing with relatively straight posterior margin. In contrast to Dendrothrips , the new genus has the fore wing costal setae extending to anterior margin, maxillary palps long, pronotal anteromaginal setae prominent, mouthcone reaching to middle of mesosternum.

Figures

FIGURES 1–7. Jammuthrips paikuliensis gen. et sp. n. Female; (1) Whole body; (2) Prosternum; (3) Head; (4) Tergites IV–VI; (5) Pronotum; (6) Fore wing apex; (7) Fore wing.

FIGURES 8–11. Jammuthrips paikuliensis gen. et sp. n. Female; (8) Head and pronotum; (9) Antenna; (10) Head, pro-, meso-, and metasterna; (11) Meso- and metanotum; (12) Tergites I–X.