New Distributional Records of Thrips (Insecta:Thysanoptera) from Odisha State of India

Thrips are economically important insect ranging from 1 to 15 mm and belong to order Thysanoptera. The order Thysanoptera is classified into two suborders Terebrantia and Tubulifera with 9 families (ThripsWiki 2016). Worldwide 6102 species of thrips are reported so far, of which 739 species recorded from India (ThripsWiki 2016; Tyagi&Kumar 2016). The members of insect order Thysanoptera are reported as pest on a wide variety of agricultural and horticultural crops and few of them are predators on thrips species and some other insects like aphids and mites. Some of them also act as vectors of Tospoviruses on a number of different plant families like Tomato, Capsicum etc.