Common Thrip

Plant / resting place / on
larva of Aptinothrips rufus may be found on live Poaceae
Remarks: season: 1-12

Often abundant in pastures but there is little evidence of crop damage (Mound and Kibby, 1998).

All life stages occur throughout the year (Mound et al., 1976).

Alberta, Nunavut (Ellesmere island), Manitoba, Quebec, B.C., Ontario, Quebec, Greenland (Chiasson, 1986). Wide spread throughout the temperate regions of the world (Mound et al., 1976).

The body varies around 1.5mm in length, and antennal segments 4 and 5 and the sides of the tibiae are brownish. Antennal segment 6 and the end of the abdomen are a dark brown. The head is somewhat reticulate in the anterior two thirds, but is transversely striate in the posterior third (Stannard, 1968). Antennae are 6-segmented (Mound and Marullo, 1996). Antennal segment 2 does not have flanged sides, and segment 6 is large and consists of morphological segments 6 to 8. Tarsi are 1 segmented. Abdominal tergite 9 has short posterior setae (Stannard, 1968).

On leaves or in leaf sheathes of grasses (Palmer, 1975).

Undocumented.

Grasses (Palmer, 1975).