Thysanoptera Britannica et Hibernica

Thrips of the British Isles

The Credits

This is a revision and update of the system published in 2018. Apart from a few corrections, it includes four additional species recently arrived in Britain and many new distribution records, incorporating the result of increased collecting effort in Great Britain since 2018. It also reflects an increased understanding of the Irish fauna. It thus greatly expands upon the information provided in the 1976 Handbook for the Identification of British Insects. In presenting this system, we are deeply conscious of the debt we owe to Guy Morison who spent much of his life collecting these insects across Britain, and who donated his collection of over 20,000 microscope slides to the Natural History Museum in London. That collection was further developed by others, notably Brian Pitkin and Jenny Palmer as well as by the authors Laurence Mound and Dom Collins. The collection also includes much historic material derived from RS Bagnall, CB Williams, H Priesner and H Uzel. The line drawings included here were prepared by Jenny Palmer for the 1976 Handbook. The photomicrographs were produced with a Leica DM2500 microscope under Nomarski illumination, and processed through Automontage software. We are grateful to Matt Taylor of Lucidcentral.org who provided much technical support in solving computer problems associated with data management.

This publication should be cited as follows: Mound LA, Collins DW, Hastings A (2025). Thysanoptera Britannica et Hibernica - Thrips of the British Isles. Lucidcentral.org, Identic Pty Ltd, Queensland, Australia.