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Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India OPEN ACCESS The Journal of Threatened Taxa is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use of artcles in any medium, reproducton, and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Short Communication Two new reports of thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India R.R. Rachana & R. Varatharajan 26 February 2018 | Vol. 10 | No. 2 | Pages: 11312–11315 10.11609/jot.3380.10.2.11312-11315 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies and Guidelines visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints contact <[email protected]> Threatened Taxa New reports of thrips from India Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 February 2018 | 10(2):Rachana 11312–11315 & Varatharajan Two new reports of thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) 1 2 Short Communication Short R.R. Rachana & R. Varatharajan ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) 1 Division of Insect Systematcs, ICAR-Natonal Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, OPEN ACCESS Karnataka 560024, India 2 Centre of Advanced Study in Life Sciences, Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur 795003, India 1 [email protected] (corresponding author), 2 [email protected] Abstract: Caliothrips punctpennis (Hood) and the male of Western that is now found worldwide (Kirk & Terry 2003). It Flower Thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) have been recorded causes direct feeding damage to a wide variety of for the frst tme from India. F. occidentalis was collected on the leaves of Erythrina indica from Ooty in the Nilgiris, the Western Ghats, agricultural and hortcultural crops and is an important southern India, whereas C. punctpennis was collected from yellow vector of tospoviruses (family Tospoviridae, genus pan traps laid at Great Nicobar, India. Considering the quarantne importance of the pest F. occidentalis, the report of the male for Orthotospovirus), causing heavy economic loss across the frst tme in India needs atenton and concern. Males are also the globe (Jones et al. 2010; Adams et al. 2017). So far, known to be more efectve vectors of tospoviruses than females. 14 species of thrips have been reported as vectors for Xerochrysum bracteatum, the Common Golden Everlastng Daisy, is ofen taken out of Ooty by tourists to other parts of the country. tospoviruses. Out of these, F. occidentalis is responsible This along with other plantng materials carried by tourists and for the transmission of as many as fve species of farmers could aid in the dispersal of F. occidentalis to the temperate tospoviruses (Chrysanthemum Stem Necrosis Virus, regions of northern and southern India, where it is likely to thrive in the congenial climatc conditons prevalent there. Under these Groundnut Ring Spot Virus, Impatens Necrotc Spot circumstances, it is imperatve that quarantne mechanisms within the Virus, Tomato Chlorotc Spot Virus, Tomato Spoted Wilt country are actvated and strengthened, to prevent the spread of this Virus / Groundnut Bud Necrosis Virus) (Riley et al. 2011). notorious pest to the rest of India from the pockets of its occurrence in southern India - partcularly the Nilgiris. The diagnostc characters of The genus Frankliniella was erected by Karny (1910) both species are discussed. in the form of a footnote, and the type species, Thrips intonsa Trybom, was subsequently designated by Hood Keywords: Caliothrips punctpennis, Frankliniella occidentalis, new record, Thysanoptera, Western Flower Thrips. (1914). Sakimura & O’Neill (1979) redefned the genus Frankliniella Karny based on the patern of abdominal ctenidia and associated setae. The species has not been Described originally from western USA, the reported from India, untl Tyagi & Kumar (2015) collected Western Flower Thrips (WFT), Frankliniella occidentalis four females in 2014 from Bengaluru, Karnataka, (Pergande) is a major pest and tospoviruses vector without any males in their collecton. Studies on recent DOI: htp://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3380.10.2.11312-11315 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:83F975BA-5356-45F3-8CE7-DE44E5A3130B Editor: Mariana Flores Lindner, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil. Date of publicaton: 26 February 2018 (online & print) Manuscript details: Ms # 3380 | Received 01 March 2017 | Final received 15 January 2018 | Finally accepted 10 February 2018 Citaton: Rachana, R.R. & R. Varatharajan (2018). Two new reports of thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(2): 11312–11315; htp://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3380.10.2.11312-11315 Copyright: © Rachana & Varatharajan 2018. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this artcle in any medium, reproducton and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Funding: ICAR-Natonal Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru.. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: The study is funded by CRP-Agrobiodiversity Project of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, ICAR - New Delhi. We thank Dr. L. A. Mound, CSIRO Australia for species confrmaton. The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr. K. Veenakumari for the specimens of C. punctpennis. Thanks are due to Dr. Chandish R. Ballal, Director, NBAIR, for encouragement and facilites provided and to Dr. Sunil Joshi, NBAIR for his help in photography. 11312 New reports of thrips from India Rachana & Varatharajan collectons from Ooty, Tamil Nadu has revealed the presence of a single male specimen, the frst record of the male of F. occidentalis from India, which is reported below. The genus Caliothrips, erected by Daniel in 1904, comprises 25 described species worldwide (Thripswiki - referred on 7 December 2017), with fve species known from India (Rachana & Varatharajan 2017). Hood in 1912 described the species punctpennis under the genus Heliothrips. Caliothrips is closely related to many Panchaetothripinae genera, but can be recognized by the following characters: parallel cheeks, one segmented tarsi, antennal segments III and IV with forked sense cones, absence of a complete comb of microtrichia on © R.R. Rachana hind margin of tergite VIII (Wilson 1975). In additon, Image 1. Female Caliothrips punctpennis members of the genus Caliothrips are recognisable by the form of sculpture on head and pronotum, with prominent markings within the retculatons and the presence of a coiled apodeme within each hind coxa. Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (ICAR-NBAIR), This apodeme may be one of the various adaptatons Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. amongst adults of thrips that are associated with the ability to jump suddenly (Mound et al. 2011). Diagnosis The objectve of this paper is to report the occurrence Female macroptera (Image 1): Body dark brown. of Caliothrips punctpennis and the male of F. occidentalis Antennal segments I, II and VI–VIII brown; III–V yellowish for the frst tme in India. In the order Thysanoptera, with brown at apex. Legs yellow with femora and tbia males are always less numerous than females and brown medially. Fore wings whitsh-yellow with a sometmes hardly notced (Ananthakrishnan 1984). small brown patch at fork of veins and brown at apex. Considering the quarantne importance of the pest, the Lateral third of abdominal tergites covered by hexagonal report of the male needs atenton and concern. retculatons bearing wrinkles; retculatons transversing anterior third of each tergite. These retcules are Materials and Methods arranged in vertcal rows of three or four with wrinkles Random taxonomic surveys were conducted from laterally. 16–20 February 2016 and 15–24 March 2016 at Ooty, Distributon: India (Nicobar island) (new record); Tamil Nadu and the Andaman & Nicobar islands, Mexico (Hood 1912); USA (Georgia, Florida) (Dife et al. India, respectvely, for collecton of thrips. Specimens 2008). were collected by the standard beatng method and were preserved in thrips collectng media (nine parts Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) 10% alcohol + 1 part glacial acetc acid + 1 ml Triton Material examined: One male (ICAR/NBAIR/THYS/70), X-100 in 1000 ml of the mixture). Specimens were nine females (ICAR/NBAIR/THYS/71–79), 18.ii.2016, mounted in Canada balsam for permanent preservaton India, Ooty, host - Erythrina indica (Fabaceae), coll. R.R. (Ananthakrishnan & Sen 1980). The specimens were Rachana. All the specimens have been deposited at collected at random, subsequently sorted out and ICAR - Natonal Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources identfed using appropriate keys (Wilson 1975; Cavalleri (ICAR-NBAIR), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. & Mound 2012). Diagnosis Results Male macroptera (Image 2): Body pale yellow with Caliothrips punctpennis (Hood) small faintly shaded patches on abdominal tergites, Material examined: Two females (ICAR/NBAIR/ legs yellow, antennal segments I yellow,
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