Thrips setosus

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Thrips setosus adult female (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Laurence Mound, ANIC, CSIRO
Source: PaDIL

Thrips setosus Moulton 1928 - (Japanese flower thrips, light-brown soybean thrips)

The thrips is found in Japan, a pest of tobacco, tomato and other crops. It can transmit the Tomato spotted wilt virus. Diagnostic features are listed below according to Riley et al. (2011).

Diagnostic features:
•	colour brown
•	antennae with 7 segments
•	2 pairs of long posteroangular setae
•	posterior margin of tergite VIII with a complete row of long and irregular microtrichia

• Other images of Thrips setosus (PaDIL - click to enlarge)
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  head and pronotum

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  mesonotum and metanotum

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  abdominal tergite VIII

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  forewing

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  antenna