Frankliniella difficilis, Hood, 1925

Cavalleri, Adriano & Mound, Laurence A., 2012, Toward the identification of Frankliniella species in Brazil (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), Zootaxa 3270, pp. 1-30 : 7

difficilis Hood, 1925

The paralectotypes of this species from Martinique have a discal seta medially on sternite II, but the lectotype ( Pitkin 1978) from Guadeloupe lacks this seta. The specimens recorded under the name difficilis from Brazil cannot at present be distinguished from gardeniae, but difficilis remains a valid name for a Caribbean species that is inadequately defined.