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Issue: Vol. 4221 No. 4: 19 Jan. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.4.6
Page range: 491–493
Abstract views: 70
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from the Western Ghats of India

Division of Insect Systematics, National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (ICAR-NBAIR), Bengaluru, Karnataka 560024, India.
Centre of Advanced Study in Life Sciences, Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur 795003, India.
Thysanoptera Thrips T. laurencei new species Western Ghats India

Abstract

Thrips laurencei sp.n. is described from specimens collected on flowers of Hydrangea macrophylla in Western Ghats range of Tamil Nadu, India. This new species shows sexual dimorphism in colour, with the females brownish yellow with brown shadings but the males uniformly yellow. 

 

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