Key to Ctenothrips species from India (* Based on original description) 1. Head with 2 pairs of ocellar setae, ocellar III posterior to ocellar triangle; dark thickenings attached to fore ocellus; antennal segments III–V and VII–VIII yellow; mesosternum without spinula; tergites II–VIII with posterior margin smooth............................................................................................ barapatharensis sp.n. -. Head with 3 pairs of ocellar setae, ocellar III inside ocellar triangle; fore ocellus without any thickening; antennae uniformly dark brown; mesosternum with spinula; tergites II–VIII posterior margin with or without polygonal reticulation 2 2. Abdominal tergites II–VI with faint reticulation, smooth in about posterior half; VII–VIII completely smooth....... smilax * -. Abdominal tergites II–VII and anterior margin of VIII with polygonal reticulation.............................. niger

Published as part of Tyagi, Kaomud, Ghosh, Biswatosh & Kumar, Vikas, 2014, The genus Ctenothrips from India (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with description of one new species and one new record, pp. 273-279 in Zootaxa 3821 (3) on page 274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/225439