Figures

Fig. 1 Antenna and head (dorsal)
Fig. 2 Head (dorsal)
Fig. 3 Fore and hind wing
Fig. 4 Meso- and metanotum
Fig. 5 Sternite II and III
Fig. 6 Tergite VIII

Species

Biology

Polyphagous on a range of crops in south east Asia, including potatoes and papaya.

Distribution

Found from Thailand and Malaya to the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and northern Australia.

Recognition

Medium sized brown thrips, forewing dark with base pale; antennal segment III with base yellow. Antennae 7-segmented, sense cone on III & IV small and forked. Head with no setae in front of fore ocellus, one pair just outside anterior margins of ocellar triangle. Pronotum with 2 pairs of posteroangular setae. Metanotum with transverse lines of sculpture at anterior, but polygonal reticulation on posterior half with lines inside the reticles; median setae not at anterior margin. Forewing first and second veins with complete setal rows. Tergite II with 3 lateral marginal setae; V-VIII with ctenidia laterally, on VIII posteromesad of spiracle; posteromarginal comb on tergite VIII not developed. Sternites III-VI with a median row of up to 10 discal setae; sternite VII and all pleurotergites without discal setae.

Related species

This is part of a complex of south east Asian species that needs further study and includes T. taiwanus.