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Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-27
Page range: 283–289
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A new species of the genus Tameothrips Bhatti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with four new records of thrips from India

Centre for DNA Taxonomy (CDT), Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India
Centre for DNA Taxonomy (CDT), Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India
Entomology Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India
Thysanoptera Thripidae Tameothrips new species new record India

Abstract

A new thrips species of the grass-inhabiting Anaphothrips genus-group, Tameothrips arundo sp. n., is described from specimens collected on Arundo donax (Poaceae) from high altitude in Himachal Pradesh State of India. Four species of thrips in two subfamilies of family Thripidae are also reported for the first time from India, all of them well outside their known range: Helionothrips aino Ishida and Panchaetothrips noxius Priesner in the Panchaetothripinae, and Parabaliothrips takahashii Priesner and Scirtothrips kenyensis Mound in the Thripinae. This is the first record of Parabaliothrips Priesner from India. Diagnostic features and data on material studied for these species are provided.