Thrips

Thrips (singular: thrips; order Thysanoptera) are minute (mostly 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.

Melanthripidae is a family of thrips belonging to the order Thysanoptera. Members of the family, covered with gymnosperm pollen, were found in Cretaceous Spanish amber about 110-105 million years old. They are believed to have been pollinators of the Ginkgoales.

Fauriellidae is a family of thrips belonging to the order Thysanoptera.

Aeolothrips is a genus of predatory thrips in the family Aeolothripidae. There are more than 80 described species in Aeolothrips.

Heterothripidae is a family of thrips in the order Thysanoptera. There are about 6 genera and at least 70 described species in Heterothripidae.

species of insect

Merothripidae is a family of thrips in the order Thysanoptera. There are at least 4 genera and 20 described species in Merothripidae.

Adiheterothripidae is a family of thrips belonging to the order Thysanoptera.

Hoplothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, first described in 1843 by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot & Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville. The type species is Thrips corticis DeGeer, 1773.

species of insect

Bolothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Merothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Merothripidae. There are about 19 described species in Merothrips.

Macrophthalmothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Plectrothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, first described by Joseph Douglas Hood in 1908.

Cryptothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Compsothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Apterygothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Poecilothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Priesneriella is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Nesothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Adraneothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae. The genus has its highest species diversity in the New World, particularly the Neotropics, though species are also known from Asia, Australia and Africa.

Stephanothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Sophiothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Holothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, first described in 1911 by Heinrich Hugo Karny. The type species is Holothrips ingens.

species of insect

Erythrothrips is a genus of predatory thrips in the family Aeolothripidae. There are about 11 described species in Erythrothrips.

Lispothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

species of insect

Hindsiothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Heptathrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Zaliothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Leptothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Podothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Eurythrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Ethirothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, first described by Heinrich Hugo Karny in 1925.

Diceratothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Cartomothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Carientothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Carathrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Glyptothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Williamsiella is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Mixothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Megalothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Allothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Ozothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Megathrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Acanthothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae. The majority of species in the genus occur in the New World. One species has a holarctic distribution and another species is limited to northern Europe.

Pygothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Teuchothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

species of insect

Malacothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Heterothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Heterothripidae. There are more than 60 described species in Heterothrips.

Ankothrips is a genus of thrip in the family Melanthripidae.

Trachythrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

thumb|Psalidothrips sp. Psalidothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, first described by Hermann Priesner in 1932.

Scopaeothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.