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New Record of Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) from West Bengal, India


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Thrips are fringed insects, ranging from 1 mm to 15 mm in size, belongs to the order Thysanoptera. The order Thysanoptera is subdivided into two suborders Terebrantia and Tubulifera with 9 families (Mound, Heming and Palmer, 1980). It includes approximately 6000 species across the globe (ThripsWiki, 2014), of which 700 species are reported from India (Ananthakrishnan & Sen 1980, Bhatti 1990).
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  • New Record of Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) from West Bengal, India

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Devkant Singha
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, India
Kaomud Tyagi
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, India
Vikas Kumar
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, India

Abstract


Thrips are fringed insects, ranging from 1 mm to 15 mm in size, belongs to the order Thysanoptera. The order Thysanoptera is subdivided into two suborders Terebrantia and Tubulifera with 9 families (Mound, Heming and Palmer, 1980). It includes approximately 6000 species across the globe (ThripsWiki, 2014), of which 700 species are reported from India (Ananthakrishnan & Sen 1980, Bhatti 1990).


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v114i4.168555