Published April 5, 2024 | Version v1
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Frankliniella fusca

Authors/Creators

  • 1. APHIS, PPQ, Miami Plant Inspection Station, 6302 NW 36 th Street, Miami, Florida, USA

Description

Frankliniella fusca (Hinds) (Fig. 31)

Diagnosis. This polymorphic species can be pale or dark and macropterous (Fig. 31A) or micropterous. (Fig. 31B).

Distinguishing features. Color. Body pale to dark, forewings (macropterous form), pale to dark, if dark, basally pale, legs with all femora dark and all tibiae shaded (Fig. 31A, 31B). Pigmented ventral eye facets with the 1-1-2 pattern. Structure. Head usually without the PO1 setae, OC3 setae in position 2a (Fig. 31C). Pronotum with 2–4 mAM setae (Fig. 31C). Metanotum with reticulate sculpture medially (macropterous) or transverse reticulate sculpture (micropterous). Abdominal tergite VIII posteromarginal comb incomplete (Fig. 31D). Upper surface of the hind coxae without microtrichia.

Interception frequency. Uncommon.

Region(s) of interceptions. Asia, Central America and the Caribbean, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, North America.

Notes

Published as part of Skarlinsky Ii, Thomas L., 2024, The identification of the flower thrips, Frankliniella Karny (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) intercepted at U. S. ports of entry, pp. 1-64 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (39) on page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11450706

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hinds
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Thysanoptera
Family
Thripidae
Genus
Frankliniella
Species
fusca
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Frankliniella fusca (Hinds, 1902) sec. Ii, 2024