Parabaliothrips takahashii Priesner

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 : 288

Parabaliothrips takahashii Priesner

Parabaliothrips takahashii Priesner, 1935: 125 .

The genus Parabaliothrips was described from Taiwan with type species P. takahashii . It comprises six species and was recorded previously from New Zealand, Australia and south east Asia, with coluckus from Nepal, grandiceps and takahashii from Taiwan, newmani and setifer from Australia, and montanus from Australia and New Zealand. P. takahashii can be distinguished from coluckus by the length of ocellar setae I being less than two times the median width of antennal segment III, whereas these setae are more than three times the median width of antennal segment III in P. coluckus .

Diagnosis. Body dark brown including all femora. Fore tibia yellow with brown shade in basal 2/3, mid and hind tibiae brown with extreme apex yellow, all tarsi yellow. Antennal segments I–II brown, III yellow with basal 1/3 brown, IV–VI yellow, VII–VIII yellow with brown shade ( Fig. 4 ). Tergite VIII with complete but sparse comb of microtrichia across posterior margin; ocellar setae III arising on tangent joining posterior margins of posterior ocelli. Ocellar setae I less than 2.0 times as long as median width of antennal segment III.

Material studied. INDIA, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla, 4 females on mixed vegetation, 13.vi.2014, (Reg. No. 6504/H17 to 6507/H17), Tyagi & Kumar.

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.