Thrips
Order Thysanoptera
Tiny slender insects with fringed wings. Many are agricultural pests that damage crops by feeding on plant juices. Some species are predatory or fungivorous.
Species in this Order (24)
Acacia Thrips
Kladothrips waterhousei
An Australian gall-inducing thrips that creates enclosed galls on Acacia phyllodes. It exhibits a so...
Arctic Thrips
Aptinothrips rufus
A tiny, wingless thrips that feeds on grasses in Arctic and subarctic habitats. Its brown body is ba...
Australian Gall Thrips
Kladothrips intermedius
A eusocial thrips from Australia that induces galls on Acacia trees and defends them with a soldier ...
Banded Greenhouse Thrips
Hercinothrips femoralis
A large thrips species with banded wings that infests banana, avocado, and ornamental plants. Origin...
Banded-wing Thrips
Aeolothrips fasciatus
A predatory thrips with dark-banded wings commonly found on crop plants. It preys on pest thrips, mi...
Black Hunter Thrips
Haplothrips leucanthemi
A tube-tailed thrips found in the flowers of daisies and other composites across Europe. Unlike many...
Chilli Thrips
Scirtothrips dorsalis
A tiny pale yellow thrips that is an invasive pest of peppers, strawberries, and ornamental plants. ...
Cuban Laurel Thrips
Gynaikothrips ficorum
A large dark thrips that causes leaf rolling on Ficus species. Colonies live inside the rolled leave...
Fighting Soldier Thrips
Oncothrips tepperi
A eusocial Australian thrips that forms colonies inside galls on Acacia trees with distinct reproduc...
Gall-forming Thrips
Klambothrips myopori
A tiny Australian thrips that induces galls on Myoporum plants. It was introduced to California as a...
Gladiolus Thrips
Thrips simplex
A specialist pest of gladiolus and related plants, causing silvery streaking on leaves and flower da...
Grain Thrips
Limothrips cerealium
A widespread pest of cereal crops including wheat, barley, and oats. Adults are dark brown and migra...
Greenhouse Thrips
Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis
A dark-bodied thrips that feeds on a wide range of ornamental and subtropical fruit plants. It produ...
Lily Thrips
Liothrips vaneeckei
A dark, stout thrips that damages lily bulbs in storage and in the field. It feeds between bulb scal...
Melon Thrips
Thrips palmi
A pale yellow thrips and serious pest of cucurbits and solanaceous crops. It is a quarantine pest in...
Onion Thrips
Thrips tabaci
A cosmopolitan pest of onions, garlic, and many other crops. It can reproduce both sexually and part...
Pear Thrips
Taeniothrips inconsequens
A dark brown thrips that damages pear and cherry blossoms in spring. Adults emerge from the soil to ...
Poinsettia Thrips
Echinothrips americanus
A dark brown thrips originally from eastern North America now invasive in European greenhouses. It f...
Predatory Thrips
Aeolothrips intermedius
A beneficial predatory thrips that feeds on spider mites, other thrips, and small insects. It has di...
Privet Thrips
Dendrothrips ornatus
A small pale thrips that feeds on privet hedges causing silvery leaf damage. It has an unusual jumpi...
Rose Thrips
Thrips fuscipennis
A common European thrips found in rose flowers and other blossoms. It feeds on pollen and flower pet...
Six-spotted Thrips
Scolothrips sexmaculatus
A tiny predatory thrips with three dark spots on each forewing. It is a valuable natural enemy of sp...
Tobacco Thrips
Frankliniella fusca
A major pest of tobacco, peanut, and cotton seedlings in the southeastern United States. It transmit...
Western Flower Thrips
Frankliniella occidentalis
One of the most economically damaging insects in horticulture. Transmits tomato spotted wilt virus. ...