thripid


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Noun 1. [画像:thripid - any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any]thripid - any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect - an insect of the order Thysanoptera
Frankliniella fusca, tobacco thrips - injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts
onion louse, onion thrips, Thrips tobaci - injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco
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(Thysanoptera); a polymorphic alien thripid damaging Lantana leaves in Australia.
El grupo Frankliniella tritici en la region de America Central, el Caribe y Mexico (Terebrantia: Thripidae) y descripcion de una nueva especie para Mexico, Frankliniella oaxacensis
However, these thripids are polyphagous feeders, breeding in many unrelated plant species.
The first record of Psydruthrips kewi (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in South America, with notes on its damage on calla lily (Alismatales: Araceae)
2009) refers to one of the target organisms assessed as "Thysanoptera" with no indication as to whether adults or larvae were involved, or if the insects were flower-feeding thripids or fungus-feeding phlaeothripids.
Homologies and host-plant specificity: recurrent problems in the study of thrips