Thrips Identification Guide
Knowing and recognising thrips in your crops
Adult
Larva
Damage
Antenna
Head
Pronotum1
Western
flower thrips
Frankliniella occidentalis
Onion thrips [...] ps dracaenae
Leaf-gall
thrips of ficus
Gynaikothrips uzeli
1 Pronotum is the foremost dorsal shield of the thorax.
2 Dorsal shields below the pronotum [...] metanotum2
Abdominal tergites with comb
Morphological characteristics
Behaviour and life cycle
Damage
Host plants
Females 1.2 mm long, males 1 mm.
Variable