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Home of the Database of Insects and their Food Plants Family   Thripidae Sub Family   Description   a family of thrips Background to Family   Tiny insects (never more than 7mm long in Great Britain), with piercing-sucking mouthparts. Thrips are haplodiploid, whereby females arise from fertilised eggs and males from unfertilised ones. This has allowed a caste system, with the division of labour, to evolve in some thrips. Most Thripidae pierce the cells of leaves, where they cause direct feeding damage and also transmit plant viruses. Consequently there are numerous economic pests, both outside and in glasshouses. Flower-feeding thrips mainly exploit pollen, they may also act as pollinators. Some thrips feed on fungae beneath bark or in leaf litter. The Phlaeothripidae is a mainly tropical family, and the one most closely associated with fungae; the Phlaeothripinae feed on hyphae, and the Idolothripinae on spores. Other Phlaeothripinae in Great Britain feed on leaves and in flowers, while some foreign species induce galls. The hosts of thrips span a wide range of taxonomic groups and life forms: from conifers and broadleaved trees to dicot and monocot herbs and grasses. There are some predatory species.     No. taxa in DBIF   105 No. interactions   393 % interactions with British data   90% No. records   501 % taxa with British data   99% Notes   Comment on Thysanoptera species list and interactions by Dom Collins (Central Science Laboratory, 2007): 'this list is based on the most recent published checklist for the Thysanoptera of Great Britain (Mound et al., 1976.Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 1, Part 11. Res,London). The list does not yet incorporate a number of thrips species nomenclatural changes made as a result of subsequent taxonomic revisions. It can be difficult to establish true plant host relationships for thrips. Thrips adults are readily carried by winds and so are often found on plants on which they do not breed. In the absence of confirmed breeding, plant records should be treated as associations rather than as true host records. This distinction is not always clear from published records.'; ; Notes on Sources   Most recent source   1986 Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.   Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:68 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:54 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:53 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:109 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:40 Source   Jefferson, R.G.(1982) Naturalist, Hull 107 141-150:147 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:49 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:70 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:53 Source   Batra, S.(1984) Environ. Entomol. 13 1113-1124:1121 Source   Ward, L.K.(1973) Entomologist 106 97-113:99 Source   Rosenthal, S.S. & Buckingham, G.R.(1982) Hilgardia 50:2 1-19:15 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:67 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:71 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:60 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:29 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:20 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:38 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:55 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:110 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:108 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:32 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:24 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:18 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:111 Source   Ward, L.K.(1968) Trans. r. ent. Soc. Lond. 120:18 395-416:412 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:47 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:52 Source   Stadnitskiy, G.V. & Grebenshchikova, V.P.(1979) Ent. Obozr. 58 46-51:46 Source   Zur Strassen, R.(1980) Polskie Pismo Ent. 50 167-170:210 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:44 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:36 Source   Stoddard, F.L.(1986) Ann. appl. Biol. 109:1 61-69:62 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:46 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:57 Source   Binns, E.S., Hall, R.A. & Pickford, R.J.J.(1982) Entomologist's mon. Mag. 118 55-68:55 Source   Zur Strassen, R.(1980) Polskie Pismo Ent. 50 167-170:208 Source   Richens, R.H. (1983) Elm :66 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:51 Source   Cross, J.V.(1983) Advis. Leafl. Minist. Agric. Fish. Fd. 2368 1-36:27 Source   Palmer, J.M.(1986) Entomologist's Gaz. 37:4 245-252:246 Source   Oakley, J.N.(1980) Pl. Path. 29 99-99:99 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:22 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:61 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:42 Source   Stadnitskiy, G.V. & Grebenshchikova, V.P.(1979) Ent. Obozr. 58 46-51:47 Source   Akbari-Rafi, M.B.(1977) Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 82 113-118:115 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:26 Source   Stoddard, F.L.(1986) Ann. appl. Biol. 109:1 61-69:61 Source   Zur Strassen, R.(1980) Polskie Pismo Ent. 50 167-170:205 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:52 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:54 Source   Palmer, J.M.(1986) Entomologist's Gaz. 37:4 245-252:250 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:56 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:66 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:34 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:46 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:28 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:69 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:65 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:55 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:48 Source   Mound, L.A. * et al.(1976) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects I:11 1-79:31 Source   Morison, G.D.(1948) Lond. Nat. (Suppl.) 27 37-75:50