Zaniothrips ricini Bhatti, 1967

Elie, Ntirenganya, Yajin, Li, Yanlan, Xie, Yanli, Zhou & Hongrui, Zhang, 2021, Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 72670-72670 : 72670

Zaniothrips ricini Bhatti, 1967

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: E.N & X.Y. L; individualID: 2019-v-12; individualCount: 3; sex: females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 28; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Zaniothrips ricini Bhatti ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Menglun) ; decimalLatitude: 21.932623; decimalLongitude: 101.271352; Identification : identifiedBy: Xie Yanlan ; dateIdentified: 2019; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 12/05/2019; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from Moraceae .

Distribution

Described in India and recorded from China (Xishuangbanna).

Diagnosis

Female macropterous, body brown to paler (Fig. 14 ); head wider than long, weakly reticulated with broad reticulate posterior collar; ocellar setae I present, II longer than III; three pairs of well-developed postocular setae; maxillary palps 2-segmented; antennae 8- segmented, segment I without paired dorso-apical setae; III with sense cone forked, IV with one forked and one simple sense cones. Pronotal with or without weak sculptures; metanotum weakly reticulate, median setae close to posterior margin, campaniform sensilla present; fore wing with anterior margin fringe cilia shorter than costa setae.

Figures

Figure 14. Female of Zaniothrips ricini Bhatti, 1978.