Liophloeothrips segnis Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish

Tyagi, Kaomud & Kumar, Vikas, 2011, The Indian species of Liophloeothrips Priesner (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) with one new species, Zootaxa 2803, pp. 21-31 : 30

Liophloeothrips segnis Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish

( Figs. 14 , 22 , 30 )

Liophlaeothrips segnis Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish 1969: 43 .

This species was described from 12 females and 11 males collected from an unidentified Rubiaceae gall. Ananthakrishnan & Sen (1980) mentioned in their key that the mesopresternum is parallel sided and very broad in this species, although this was not indicated in the original description. In the holotype of L. segnis , the mesopresternum is divided into two lateral triangles.

Specimens studied. Holotype female (macroptera), India: Goa: Londa, Rubiaceae galls, 11.x.1968, TNA 426, NPC.

Distribution. India (Goa: Londa).

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 16. Liophloeothrips pelta. (8) L. ablusus, female macroptera; (9) L. amoenus, female macroptera; (10) L. cecidii, male macroptera; (11) L. reperticus, female macroptera; (12) L. curtus, female macroptera; (13) L. pavettae, female macroptera; (14) L. segnis, female macroptera; (15) L. succinctus, female macroptera; (16) L. vichitravarna, female macroptera.

FIGURES 17 – 22. Liophloeothrips head and pronotum. (17) L. ablusus, female macroptera; (18) L. cecidii, male macroptera; (19) L. curtus, female macroptera; (20) L. pavettae, female macroptera; (21) L. reperticus, female macroptera; (22) L. segnis, female macroptera.

FIGURES 23 – 31. Liophloeothrips mesopresternum. (23) L. reperticus, female macroptera; (24) L. curtus, female macroptera; (25 – 26) L. ablusus, female macroptera; (27) L. pavettae, female macroptera; (28) L. vichitravarna, female macroptera; (29) L. cecidii, male macroptera; (30) L. segnis, female macroptera. (31) Metanotum of L. succinctus, female macroptera.