The order Thysanoptera is composed of cosmopolitan phytophagous and predaceous insects with diverse life histories, behaviors and habits. This order is currently thought to form a trichotomy with Hemiptera and Psocodea; Hemiptera and Thysanoptera are considered to be sister groups. The interrelationships within Thysanoptera remain unclear and cytotaxonomic studies are scarce in thrips. We repor...

An illustrated identification system is presented to 99 species and 49 genera in three families recorded from the Hawaiian Islands in the Thysanoptera suborder Terebrantia. Only seven (possibly eight) of these species are considered endemic, the remainder being adventive to these islands. The only previous study of Hawaiian Thysanoptera, by Zimmerman in 1948, included 47 Terebrantia species in ...

We present data to argue that several recent papers on the Thysanoptera of Costa Rica are affected by unsatisfactory technical procedures, including failure to recognize intraspecific structural variation. Fourteen new synonyms are recognized for Costa Rica Thysanoptera, nine generic and five specific.

In Iran, as a result of recent changes in nomenclature 201 species and one species group of the insect Order Thysanoptera, are here listed in 70 genera and five families. In considering species listed previously from this country, the presence of 7 species is considered not confirmed, and 12 species are excluded from the Iranian list. Problems in the study of Iranian Thysanoptera are discussed ...

An overview is given of 18 Thysanoptera species found on Ethiopian cut flowers, cuttings and vegetables during import inspection in the Netherlands. Consignments consisted mostly of cut flowers, in total belonging to twelve plant genera. Details on geographical distribution and host plants of the thrips encountered are given, and two are newly described: T. cacuminis sp. n. and T. dezeeuwi sp. ...

Almost 50 species of the insect order Thysanoptera are here listed from Barrow Island, Western Australia, of which several are known only from this island. This cannot be interpreted as indicating that any species is endemic to the island, because almost nothing is known of the Thysanoptera fauna of the nearby mainland.

Bu çalışma Mersin İli (Türkiye) bağ alanlarında bulunan thrips (Thysanoptera) türlerinin tespiti, popülasyon değişimleri ve zarar oranlarını belirlemek amacıyla 2019 2020 yıllarında yürütülmüştür. Çalışma sonucunda 14 Thysanoptera türü belirlenmiştir. En fazla tespit edilen tür Rubiothrips vitis (Priesner, 1933) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) (%56) olmuş onu Mycterothrips tschirkunae (Yakhontov, 196...

This study was carried out to identify species belonging Thysanoptera in stone and pome fruit orchards the districts (Balya, Bandırma, Bigadiç, Burhaniye, Dursunbey, Erdek, Gönen, Havran, Kepsut Manyas) of Balıkesir Province, Turkey 2018 2019. The survey revealed 32 (thrips) species. Thrips were examined 9900 flowers, leaves, fruits from 198 during research. most widespread (total number sample...

Two new species and one record of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with an updated checklist from Iran

First record of Preeriella Hood with one new Hoplandrothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) from India