“…Among the observed symptoms caused by the thrips complex in the leaflets and the rachis of D. carota leaves, where they caused necrotic patches throughout the upper third of the leaf rachis (Figure 1a), as observed in watermelon crops when the attacked parts present a burnt or silvery appearance and dark spots (Michereff Filho et al, 2010), during the suction of the intracellular content by the thrips, the cells, while extracted, give to the plant tissue silver spots and later brownish spots due to the extravasated cells and accompanied by black spots that are the faeces deposited by thrips (Nondillo et al, 2010) (Figure 1b), and foliar shrivelling (Figure 1c) similar to the most characteristic symptoms of tomato "vira-cabeça" disease, transmitted by viruses of the Tospovirus genus disseminated by thrips that cause foliar distortion necrosis in young leaves and death of the stems (Albuquerque et al, 2012).…”