Frankliniella parvula, Hood, 1925

Cavalleri, Adriano & Mound, Laurence A., 2012, Toward the identification of Frankliniella species in Brazil (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 3270, pp. 1-30 : 12

parvula Hood, 1925

( Figs 15 , 50, 138, 153)

This brown species is not yet recorded from Brazil, but is included here because as a widespread insect in Central America that is common in the flowers of Musa and Theobroma cacao ( Mound & Marullo 1996) it is likely to be found in this country. It is very distinctive in having the pedicel of antennal segment III elongate, and the fore wings are dark although slightly paler at the base.

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 21. Females of Frankliniella spp. (13) F. occidentalis (dark form); (14) F. occidentalis (bicoloured form); (15) F. parvula; (16) F. schultzei (yellow form); (17) F. schultzei (dark form); (18) F. serrata; (19) F. trinidadensis; (20) F. v a r i p e s; (21) F. williamsi.