thysanopterous insect

Synonyms:

thysanopter, thysanopteron

Types:

thrip, thripid, thrips

any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive

Frankliniella fusca, tobacco thrips

injurious to growing tobacco and peanuts

Thrips tobaci, onion louse, onion thrips

injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco

Type of:

insect

small air-breathing arthropod