Quatro espécies de Thrips: T. australis, T. palmi, T. simplex e T. tabaci. estão presentes no Brasil. Três delas são pragas de culturas e T. australis está normalmente associada a flores de Eucalyptus spp. Além de polífagas, T. palmi e T. tabaci também são vetoras de viroses. Uma chave para diferenciar essas espécies é apresentada, assim como a sua caracterização morfológica.

Four Thrips species: T. australis, T. palmi, T. simplex e T. tabaci are recorded in Brazil. Three of them are crop pests and T. australis is commonly associated to Eucalyptus spp. flowers. Besides being polyphagous, T. palmi and T. tabaci are also virus-vector. A key to distinguish these species is provided, as well as their characterization.

Seis espécies de Frankliniella: F. brevicaulis Hood, F. condei John, F. occidentalis (Pergande), F. schultzei (Trybom), F. williamsi Hood e F. zucchini Nakahara & Monteiro são consideradas pragas no Brasil, sendo três delas vetoras de viroses. Uma chave para diferenciar essas espécies é apresentada, assim como sua caracterização morfológica.

Six Frankliniella species: F. brevicaulis Hood, F. condei John, F. occidentalis (Pergande), F. schultzei (Trybom), F. williamsi Hood and F. zucchini Nakahara & Monteiro are pests in Brazil, three of them are virus-vector. A key to distinguish these species is provided, as well as their morphological characterization.

Realizaram-se levantamentos de plantas daninhas, no Campus da UNESP em Jaboticabal/SP, com o objetivo de identificar espécies de plantas daninhas hospedeiras do tripes Frankliniella schultzei (Trybom). As plantas foram coletadas semanalmente utilizando-se o método de ensacamento. A separação dos tripes foi feita mediante emprego do funil de Berlese. Entre as 43 espécies de plantas daninhas encontradas nas áreas amostradas, 19 são hospedeiras do tripes. Rabanete (Raphanus sativus L.), nabiça (R. raphanistrum L.) e mostarda (Sinapsis arvensis L.) foram as que apresentaram as maiores porcentagens de F. schultzei, 45, 27 e 17% do total de fêmeas coletadas respectivamente.

A monitoring of weeds was carried out on the UNESP Campus in Jaboticabal, SP, with the objective of indentifying host weed species of Frankliniella schultzei (Trybom). The plants were collected weekly and transported to the laboratory inside paper bags. The Berlese funnel method was used to separate the insects from the plants. Thrips were found in 19 of the 43 weed species studied: Raphanus sativus L., R. raphanistrum L., and Sinapsis arvensis L. presented the highest percentage of thrips, consisting of 45, 27, and 17% respectively of the total females that were collected.

Neohydatothrips samayunkur (Kudô) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) é registrado pela primeira vez no Brasil em cravo-de-defunto (Tagetes patula: Compositae), no Estado do Paraná. Os danos causados à planta, os sintomas de ataque e os hospedeiros conhecidos, assim como a caracterização dessa espécie de tripes são relatados.

The occurence of Thrips tabaci Lind. on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) was investigated. In the Brazilian literature T. tabaci has been mentioned as a common early season phytophagous pest of cotton. However, there are no references to collections (voucher specimens) or to identification methods that can clarify these records. In contrast, among many samples of thrips collected between 1992 and 1996 (mostly in 1995) on cotton, in 30 counties from five states and four geographic regions, not a single specimen was found. If T. tabaci occurs commonly on this crop in Brazil, even at relatively low populations, then at least some individuals should have been collected in this survey. Most of the thrips specimens taken from cotton were Frankliniella schultzei (Trybom), although Caliothrips phaseoli (Hood) and unidentified Frankliniella spp. were also found in low numbers in few samples.