Noathrips Bhatti, 1967

Rachana, Remani R., Mound, Laurence A. & Rayar, Shashikant G., 2019, Tryphactothripini of India (Thysanoptera, Thripidae, Panchaetothripinae), with identification keys and a new record of Opimothrips, ZooKeys 884, pp. 43-52 : 43

Noathrips Bhatti, 1967

Noathrips Bhatti, 1967: 9. Type species Noathrips prakashi Bhatti, 1967 by monotypy.

Notes.

The genus was erected with the type species prakashi , collected on herbage and Lantana leaves from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh ( Bhatti 1967). Later, this species was collected in Sri Lanka and China ( Kudô 1979; Xie et al. 2019).

Diagnosis.

Antennae 8-segmented, III and IV with forked sense cones. Head without conspicuous raised structure, postocular seta 4 strongly developed, ocellar hump small; maxillary palps bi-segmented. Pronotum with weakly raised sculpture. Mesoscutum not notched anteriorly; metascutum with prominent reticulate triangle. Tarsi 1-segmented. Fore wing with slender pointed setae; costal setae longer than fringe cilia; posteromarginal setae wavy. Abdominal tergite I with a postmarginal flange; II anterior margin constricted, with narrow plate like cuticular processes laterally; III–VII with transverse reticulations on anterior half, posterior half smooth; X asymmetrical, divided longitudinally. Males smaller; sternites IV–VII each with transversely elongated anteriorly concave pore plates.