<b>Checklist of terebrantian thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) recorded from India</b>

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<b>New reports of thrips (Thysanoptera: Terebrantia: Thripidae) from India</b>

“…The images of all the three species were photographed with the help of a binocular research microscope. Asprothrips navsariensis and A. indicus have been reported from India (Rachana & Varatharajan 2017). Newly reported species can be distinguished from A. navsariensis and A. indicus by having bicoloured body, two brown patches on tergite VI of abdomen and brown forewings with basal white area.…”

“…Among them, Thripidae is the biggest family, represented by a large number of economically important species. A recent appraisal of this family in India reflects the presence of 307 species in 105 genera (Rachana & Varatharajan 2017). While analysing the diverse species in terms of their practical attributes, it is apparently…”

“…The genus Asprothrips was erected by Crawford in 1938, with A. raui as type species, and currently comprises eight described species worldwide (ThripsWiki -accessed on 25 May 2018). Nevertheless, as of now only two species are known from India (Rachana & Varatharajan 2017). The genus Asprothrips can be easily diagnosed by its reticulate body with a complex sculpture; head transverse with anterior margin recessed, 3-segmented maxillary palp; metathoraxic endofurca lyre-shaped, extending to mesosternal furca; all tarsi usually 2-segmented; fore wing apex with 2 long apical setae; median pair of setae (S1 setae) on abdominal tergites II to VI shorter than distance between basal pores; males with or without pore plate on abdominal sternites (Tong et al 2016).…”

<b>Two new reports of thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India</b>

“…Sakimura & O'Neill (1979) redefined the genus Frankliniella Karny based on the pattern of abdominal ctenidia and associated setae. The species has not been reported from India, until Tyagi & Kumar (2015) (Rachana & Varatharajan 2017). Hood in 1912 described the species punctipennis under the genus Heliothrips.…”

The Biological Diversity of Thysanoptera in India- Is there a Way Forward?

“…At first sight, the available data for India suggest that the Thysanoptera fauna is reasonably well known. Two recent checklists are available for the described members of this Order of insects (Tyagi & Kumar 2016;Rachana & Varatharajan 2017), and together these lists indicate that about 750 species of thrips in 260 genera are recorded from India. Indeed, as early as 1928 that great entomologist, T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar, produced a 100-page summary of what was then known of the thrips of India.…”