<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Frankliniella tritici Fitch 1855</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h1> <i>tritici</i> (Fitch, 1855)</h1> <p>(Fig. 154)</p> <p>Described in the genus <i>Thrips</i>, this is a common insect in northern temperate areas, recorded in Canada, USA and Mexico. It was reported in 1930 from Argentina by Blanchard (according to De Santis <i>et al.</i> 1980), but this record needs confirmation. In Brazil <i>tritici</i> was recorded on wheat in Rio Grande do Sul (Biezanko <i>et al.</i> 1949) but this is possibly a misidentification of some other <i>Frankliniella</i> species. However, Lima (2011) recorded several yellow adults of this thrips on many unrelated plants in northeastern Brazil. This species is readily identified by the swollen pedicel of antennal segment III, and the sparse posteromarginal comb on abdominal tergite VIII, which is absent medially with only a few slender teeth laterally.</p> </body> </html>