Frankliniella Karny, 1910

Munir-Zaki, Abdul M., Ng, Yong-Foo, Mound, Laurence A., Low, Van-Lun & Azidah, Abdul Aziz, 2024, Frankliniella minuta (Moulton) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): an American species newly recorded in Asia, with a key to Frankliniella species from Malaysia, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (2), pp. 207-214 : 208

Genus Frankliniella Karny, 1910

Type-species: Thrips intonsa Trybom, 1895 , by subsequent designation (Hood, 1914:37).

Diagnosis. Antennae 8-segmented with forked sense cones on segments III and IV; head with 3 pairs of ocellar setae, S1 directly in front of the fore ocellus; pronotum with two pairs of longer setae on the anterior margin, and two pairs of longer posteroangular setae, these setae are considerably longer than the discal setae; metanotum with median setae arising at anterior margin; fore wings with complete row of setae on both longitudinal veins; abdominal tergites V–VIII with paired ctenidia laterally, on tergite VIII the ctenidia are anterolateral to the spiracles; sternites III–VII with no discal setae.