Caliothrips phaseoli (Hood)

(Figs 11, 50, 83, 96, 122)

This species (Fig. 122) is considered a pest in Brazil, and is recorded from several crops, such as soybeans (Fig. 130) (Table 2). Adults exhibit some variation in wing colour – the fore wing has base, median and apical brown bands, but the median band is pale brown in some specimens from North and Central America and uniformly brown in specimens from South America (Wilson 1975). The dark basal area of the fore wing is also often weak although always present (Fig. 83). Fore wing second vein has six setae (Fig. 83), and antennal segments III–V are pale with brown apical halves. Male is similar to female, but abdominal sternites III–VII have long transverse pore plate. Structurally very similar to C. nanus, these species are distinguished in the key above. C. cinctipennis has previously been recorded in Brazil, but Lima (1938) concluded that this was a misidentification of C. phaseoli .