Frankliniella schultzei

Natural history and identification

Common blossom thrips use flowers, and females insert eggs into floral tissue. The small feeding stages and winged adults are different parts of the life cycle. The species account provides identification characters for this thrips; floral damage or the presence of an unidentified thrips alone cannot establish F. schultzei at a Kauaʻi site.

Kauaʻi occurrence and evidence

Atlas occurrence category: Present. Bishop Museum checklist treatment records Kauaʻi occurrence.

Account coverage

Published species details have been added. A complete Kauaʻi-specific account of identification, habitat, feeding, reproduction, and population trend is not yet established by the sources linked here.

Names and classification

Scientific name

Frankliniella schultzei

Family

Thripidae

Order

Thysanoptera

Record type

species

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Kauaʻi occurrence

Present

Origin

Introduced

Conservation status

Not assessed

Process and seasonal context

Seasonal description

Frankliniella schultzei belongs to Thripidae in the order Thysanoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced.

Sources and further reading

• Bishop Museum terrestrial arthropod checklist
• Natural history and identification — species source