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Thrips
Temporal range: 299–0 Ma
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Permian – recent
Winged and wingless forms
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
(unranked):
Eumetabola
(unranked):
Paraneoptera
Order:
Thysanoptera Haliday, 1836
Suborders & Families
Terebrantia
Adiheterothripidae
Aeolothripidae
Fauriellidae
† Hemithripidae
Heterothripidae
† Jezzinothripidae
† Karataothripidae
Melanthripidae
Merothripidae
† Scudderothripidae
Stenurothripidae
Thripidae
† Triassothripidae
Uzelothripidae
Tubulifera
Phlaeothripidae
† Rohrthripidae
Synonyms
Physopoda[1]
Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute (mostly 1 mm (0.039 in) long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts. Entomologists have described approximately 7,700 species. They fly only weakly and their feathery wings are unsuitable for conventional flight; instead, thrips exploit an unusual mechanism, clap and fling, to create lift using an unsteady circulation pattern with transient vortices near the wings.
Thrips are a functionally diverse group, with nearly half of the known species being fungivorous.[2] A small proportion of species of thrips are serious pests of commercially important crops.[3] Some of these serve as vectors for over 20 viruses that cause plant disease, especially the Tospoviruses. Many flower-dwelling species bring benefits as pollinators,[4] with some predatory thrips feeding on small insects or mites.[5] In the right conditions, such as in greenhouses, invasive species can exponentially increase in population size and form large swarms because of a lack of natural predators coupled with their ability to reproduce asexually, making them destructive to crops. Due to their cryptic nature, thrips may aggregate in household objects such as furniture, bedding and computer monitors – in the latter case by forcing their way in between the LCD and its glass covering.[6]
Their identification to species by standard morphological characteristics is often challenging.
^Fedor, Peter J.; Doricova, Martina; Prokop, Pavol; Mound, Laurence A. (2010). "Heinrich Uzel, the father of Thysanoptera studies" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2645: 55–63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2645.1.3.
^Morse, Joseph G.; Hoddle, Mark S. (2006). "Invasion Biology of Thrips". Annual Review of Entomology. 51: 67–89. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151044. PMID 16332204.
^Mound, Laurence A.; Wang, Zhaohong; Lima, Élison F. B.; Marullo, Rita (2022). "Problems with the Concept of "Pest" among the Diversity of Pestiferous Thrips". Insects. 13 (1): 61. doi:10.3390/insects13010061. PMC 8780980. PMID 35055903.
^Wang, Zhaohong; Mound, Laurence A.; Hussain, Mubasher; Arthurs, Steven P.; Mao, Runqian (2022). "Thysanoptera as predators: Their diversity and significance as biological control agents". Pest Management Science. 78 (12): 5057–5070. doi:10.1002/ps.7176. PMID 36087293. S2CID 252181342.
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