Frankliniella curta

Nomenclatural details

Isochaetothrips unicolor Moulton, 1933: 128.

Frankliniella curta Hood, 1942: 654.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Trinidad (F. curta) and Brazil (I. unicolor). Recorded from Costa Rica from Senecio sp. and Ageratum sp. flowers and from Colombia from Cattelya sp.

References

Moulton (1933) The Thysanoptera of South America II. Revista de Entomologia 3: 96-133.

Hood JD (1942) A century of new American Thysanoptera III. Revista de Entomologia [1941] 12(3): 547–678.

Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–488.

Type information

Holotype (F. curta), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype (I. unicolor), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.