Helionothrips aino Ishida

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 : 287-288

Helionothrips aino Ishida

Helionothrips aino Ishida,1931 , 34–36.

The genus Helionothrips comprises 27 species worldwide (ThripsWiki 2015), of which 4 species are known from India ( Bhatti 1990). H. aino is the fifth species recorded from India. This species can be distinguished from H. ananthakrishnani Wilson by the shorter and smaller constricted apex of antennal segment IV in comparison to the apex of antennal segment III.

Diagnosis. Female macroptera. Body blackish brown ( Fig. 6 ). Antennal segments I–V and basal 2/3 of VI yellow, apical 1/3 of VI and VII–VIII light brown. All femora brown, all tibiae brown with yellow apex, tarsi yellow. Fore wing brown at base with sub-basal white band, brown at fork of vein and at distal end, distal half of wing pale brown.

Material studied. INDIA, Himachal Pradesh, Mandi, 4 females, 5 males on Colocasia leaves, 17.x.2013, (Reg. No. 6508/H17 to 6516/H17), Tyagi & Kumar. Ten females and 15 males are not mounted and preserved at - 20o C for molecular work.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. (1) Tameothrips arundo female; (2) Tameothrips arundo male; (3) Scirtothrips kenyensis, female; (4) Parabaliothrips takahashii, female; (5) Panchaetothrips noxius, female; (6) Helionothrips aino, female.