Thrips orientalis Bagnall

Thrips orientalis (Bagnall)

Isoneurothrips orientalis Bagnall, 1915: 593 Thrips hispidipennis Hood, 1932: 122

This common Asian species has been recorded from Africa only rarely, the synonym having been described from Tanzania. It is found usually in the perfumed white flowers of Jasminum and Gardenia.

Diagnosis. Body and legs brown; tarsi and antennal III and base of IV yellow; forewings uniformly brown. Antennae 7-segmented, III and IV elongate with apex constricted, VII small. Ocellar setae III small, on anterior margins of triangle; postocular setae pair II minute. Pronotum with 2 pairs of long posteroangular setae. Metanotum with equiangular reticles, usually with distinctive internal markings (Fig. 35); median setae long, arising well behind anterior margin; campaniform sensilla absent. Forewing first vein with 8 or more setae on distal half, row sometimes complete; clavus with subapical seta longer than the apical seta. Tergites with no sculpture near campaniform sensilla; VIII with comb absent medially, several small microtrichia laterally (Fig. 36); pleurotergites without discal setae. Sternal discal setae variable, sometimes absent but III–VI usually with 2–6 discal setae placed laterally.