Tameothrips Bhatti

Tyagi, Kaomud, Kumar, Vikas & Chauhan, Neena, 2015, A new species of the genus Tameothrips Bhatti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with four new records of thrips from India, Zootaxa 4007 (2), pp. 283-289 : 284

Tameothrips Bhatti

Tameothrips Bhatti, 1978:106 . Type species: Euthrips tamicola Bagnall 1914 , by monotypy.

This genus can be distinguished from the other genera of the Anaphothrips genus-group by the following set of characters ( Bhatti 1978): Tarsi 2-segmented; postocular setae arranged in one row; ferna entire; mesothoracic sternopleural suture present, spinula present on mesosternum but absent on metasternum ( Fig. 8 ); abdominal tergites and sternites without craspeda; median setae long on abdominal tergites VI–VIII; absence of a comb on posterior margin of tergite VIII and S6 setae on the abdominal tergite II–VI inserted at posterior margin ( Fig. 14 ); prominent, long medio-dorsal setae (md) on tergite IX. The genus Tameothrips is known only by its type species, and the new species described here is the second species in this genus.

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 10. Tameothrips arundo, female (7) head & pronotum; (8) pterosterna; (9) tergites VIII – X; (10) meso-metanota.

FIGURES 11 – 15. Tameothrips arundo. (11) tergites IX – X, male; (12) sternite VII, female; (13) antenna, female; (14) lateral view of tergites V – VII, female (15) fore wing, female.