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Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist


Thrips

Thrips are tiny, slender insects with fringed wings. They feed on a large variety of both plants and animals by puncturing them and sucking their contents. Many are considered pests because they feed on plants with commercial value. Others feed on insects or mites and are therefore often considered beneficial. Still others feed on fungal spores or pollen. Around 5,000 species have thus far been described. They are generally tiny insects (< 1 mm) and poor flyers, but can drift long distances in the wind.

In a 1967 survey of Galapagos thrips, three families, six genera, and eight species were recorded. Fifty species are currently known, of which 33 are described and nameable here. The Aeolothripidae is represented by one predaceous species; Merothripidae with one fungivorus species; Thripidae with 18 phytophagous species and 3 predaceous species; and the Phlaeothripidae with seven known phytophagous species and 19 species that feed on fungal hyphae or spores, on break-down products associated with fungal infestations, or prey on other insects.

Authors: Stewart B. Peck, Mark S. Hoddle.

Other Contributors: Sandra Abedrabbo, Léon L. Baert, Fabián Bersosa, Ruth Boada, Charlotte Causton, Germania Estévez, Lilian Guzmán, Henri W. Herrera, María T. Lasso, Maria Piedad Lincango, E. G. Linsley, Yale Lubin, Alejandro Mieles, Renato Oquendo, Helmut W. Rogg, Lázaro Roque-Álbelo, Leslie Usinger.

Names of taxa included: 52 total (35 accepted, 14 unidentified taxon, 3 doubtful).

Origin of the taxa included: 2 accidental, 8 questionable accidental, 26 questionable native, 16 indigenous.

Thysanoptera Species Checklist

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Domain Eukaryota

Kingdom Animalia

Division Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Order Thysanoptera

Suborder Terebrantia

Family Aeolothripidae

Family Merothripidae

Family Phlaeothripidae

Family Thripidae

Suborder Tubulifera

Family Phlaeothripidae

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This list should be cited as follows:

Peck, S. B., Hoddle, M. S. (2011). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Thrips - FCD Lista de especies de Trips de Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/terrestrial-invertebrates/thysanoptera/ Last updated 13 Apr 2011.