Ananthakrishnana Bhatti

Dang, Li-Hong, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Conspectus of the Phlaeothripinae genera from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 3807 (1), pp. 1-82 : 20

Ananthakrishnana Bhatti *

Ananthakrishnana Bhatti, 1967: 22 . Type species: Ananthakrishnana indica Bhatti , by monotypy; a synonym of Haplothrips euphorbiae Priesner.

The only species included in this genus was described from Indonesia and subsequently from India. The original description was very simple, with most characters not available. However, Bhatti (1967) indicated that the species shares many character states with those of Haplothrips species , and the genus is placed in the Haplothripini .

Diagnosis: Head a little longer than wide; eyes normal, postocular setae minute; stylets?; antennae 8- segmented, III with 2 sensoria, IV with 4; pronotum with epimeral setae developed; notopleural sutures complete?; basantra present; mesopresternum transverse; sternopleural sutures absent?; fore tarsal tooth present in both sexes?; fore wings constricted medially, without duplicated cilia; pelta?; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tube with straight sides.