Body brown; fore tibiae and all tarsi light brown, mid and hind tibiae uniformly brown; antennal segments brown, III somewhat paler; fore wings shaded. Head with three pairs of ocellar setae, pair III short, arising within ocellar triangle; postocular setae I absent. Antennae 8-segmented, III & IV with forked sense cones; III with pedicel without modified margins. Pronotum not sculptured, with two pairs of moderately short posteroangular setae; anteroangular and anteromarginal setae short. Mesothoracic spinula long, metathoracic spinula absent. Metanotum with transverse lines of reticulation anteriorly, weakly sculptured posteromedially; campaniform sensilla present; two pairs of setae arising at anterior margin. Tarsi 2-segmented. Fore wing with first and second rows of setae complete and closely spaced. Abdominal tergites V–VIII with ctenidia laterally, ctenidia on VIII anterolateral to spiracle; VIII with a posteromarginal comb of short microtrichia with broad triangular bases. Sternites without discal setae, with three pairs of long posteromarginal setae. Both sexes fully winged.
Male paler, with transverse pore plate on abdominal sternites III–VII.
Intraspecific variation
Not recorded.
Genus and similar species information
Frankliniella is one of the largest genera amongst Thysanoptera, comprising more than 160 described species. About 90% of the species are from the Neotropics and their taxonomy is usually complex. Almost all members have 8-segmented antennae, three pairs of ocellar setae and fore wing with both rows of setae complete. About 40 species are recorded from Brazil, and almost half of these were described from this country. Frankliniella serrata belongs to the informal minutagroup and is characterised by lacking postocular setae I on the head and having shaded fore wings. A key to Frankliniella species recorded from Brazil is provided by Cavalleri & Mound (2012).
Cavalleri A & Mound LA (2012) Toward the identification of Frankliniella species in Brazil (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 3270: 1–30.
Sakimura K, & O’Neill K (1979) Frankliniella, redefinition of genus and revision of minuta group species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Washington DC: US Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1572 pp. 1–49.
Published in: 28/12/2016 Posted by: Mariana Lindner
